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Foil & Freeze. Since he dropped out of high school to begin working in bakeries, Lubin has never strayed far from the oven door. In 1935 he and his brother-in-law raised $1,500 to buy three little retail bakeries in Chicago. Sixteen years later, with a chain expanded to seven stores and a hot-selling cream-cheese cake named Sara Lee (after his daughter), Lubin decided to set up shop as a wholesale baker. By developing the technique of baking his cakes in an aluminum foil pan. then freezing and shipping them in the same container, he soon...
...Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa today announced the Senior Sixteen for the Class of 1962. The are: Mitchell H. Gail, Leverett and Lexington, Ky., Biochemical Sciences; David I Lieberman, Lowell and South Orange, N. J., Mathematics; Bishop C. Hunt, Jr., Eliot and Boston, History and Literature; Paul R. Chernoff, Lowell and Philadelphia, Mathematics; Matthew D. Edel, Leverett and Jamaica, N.Y., History; Carl D. Elligers, Lowell and Brooklyn, Government; and Rodney H. Merrill, Lowell and Idaho Falls, Idaho, History and Literature...
...Sixteen years ago a wealthy, eccentric English barrister name Roland Berrill organized Mensa, a club to be composed of men and women with an intelligence quotient higher than that of 99.9 per cent of the population. Berrill envisaged a round-table society (hence the same Mensa, Latin for table) of eggheads gathered together to exchange good talk and to serve as an advisory group in government policy-making...
...been said better before, and so often that I wonder how Kazan could dare to pass this mild little ladyfinger off as a cherry bomb. Currently, the Astor will admit no children under sixteen unless they are accompanied by an adult. If Splendor is going to unravel the mysteries of sex for anyone at all, it will have to reach a younger audience. Perhaps the prevailing admissions policy at the Astor should be reversed, forbidding adults to enter unless accompanied by a child under sixteen...
...Soldiers Field yesterday as the Crimson J.V.'s rolled over a better than average eleven from Newport Naval Station, 20-6, with sophomore quarterback Bill Humenuk completing ten out of sixteen passes...