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Word: sixteen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sixteen full-page illustrations in color by Artist Newell Convers Wyeth add images to the text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Odyssey | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Sixteen petitions for nominees for Senior class officers have been handed in to J. H. Ward '30. The additions to the nominees whose names have been already published in the CRIMSON are as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIXTEEN NAMES ARE ADDED TO BALLOT | 12/11/1929 | See Source »

...economic theories cannot well help being too much for the treatment afforded by the hundred or so pages allowed this section of the book, and, after all, who is to tell whether mankind is more happy working eight hours a day on a production line or tolling sixteen on the hereditary farm? True it is, as Mr. O'Brien points out, that machines are becoming the masters of their operatives, but are these men worse off than their ancestors who maintained life only at the pleasure of seven-year-locusts or the various vagaries of the weather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mellow Essays | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

...Sixteen Sophomores, class football champions of the University, will meet the Yale champion class team this afternoon at 2 o'clock in New Haven. The 1932 eleven, led by Beekman Pool '32, captain, won the right to represent Harvard against the Bulldogs by coming out on top in the recent class series, in which they played representatives of the Junior and Senior classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CHAMPIONS SEEK LAURELS AT NEW HAVEN | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

...European demands for these commodities. In fact there has been a decided expansion. Ten of these general commodities, of the type indicated, were sold to Europe in 1913 to the total of some $72,000,000 worth. Last year the value was $293,000,000--an increase in sixteen years of more than 300 per cent. Even though a part (perhaps 60 per cent) is chargeable to price increases, there is obviously a greater increased volume in this traffic; and it shows nosign whatsoever of abatement. The fact is that the currents of commerce are largely diverted, speeded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Political Partisanship Cannot Injure Mutual Interests of Great Continents Declares Klein | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

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