Word: six
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...terror in Russia has ceased six months...
...Because of the high cost of living, there is a disastrous lack of teachers for the schools of the country. Six hundred thousand teachers are needed in the United States to teach the 20,000,000 pupils in our schools, and 100,000 new positions are open every year; yet the teacher-training institutions of the country do not turn out more than 25,000 graduates to fill them...
...victory for the cause of universal peace." Of course what the Herr Professor means is that it is a tremendous moral victory for Germany, in which he is entirely correct. He then goes on to point out that in the League America has only one vote to England's six, and deplores such a terrible state of affairs, where darling America, whom Germany loves so much, would be England's "hand-maiden." With a little dig at the wickedness of "imperialistic Japan's hold on Shantung," Herr Shuecking ends his peroration in a manner that should land him a seat...
...Leacock, besides being renowned for his work done as Professor of Political Economy at McGill University, Montreal, is better known by his humorous books, of which he has written six, among them being "Literary Lapses," and "Sunshine Sketches...
...interesting point of dissimilarity between the elevens which will play on Soldiers Field this afternoon is found in the geographical distribution of the homes of the members of the two squads. At the University, the thirty-six men on the first squad come from only six different states; while at Yale fifteen states are represented. Moreover, among the states, Massachusetts leads in both institutions, being represented by 23 men at Harvard and by 6 at Yale. New York stands second at Cambridge with 4 men; New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut are tied with four apiece for second place...