Word: sixteener
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...saving," said Shaw, "would pay for half a dozen wars, if we could find nothing better to spend it on." Though Shaw never settled on any of the many alphabets proposed to him, he did favor one that would have made the sentence "From Dodderdyke to Pope Shotten is sixteen miles or thereabout" look like...
...elected from each class is the "Junior Eight," who are named in the spring of their Junior year by the members of the Society in the Senior class and by various graduate members. Their number is increased to 24 in November of Senior year when the "Senior Sixteen" are elected, and membership is brought up to ten per cent of the class in the third election in June...
...method of election represents a combination of reliance on University rankings and close individual study by the Society itself. In the selection of the Junior Eight and the Senior Sixteen, the Society obtains from the Registrar's Office a list of the leading students in the class which includes twice as many men as the number of places available. Thus there is a choice of 16 Juniors and 32 Seniors...
...during the occupation of Egypt 34 years before. He became a close friend of Said, the overweight heir to the Egyptian throne, by giving him free access to the consulate kitchen while the boy's militant father was trying to starve him into a semblance of manly vigor. Sixteen years were to pass before Said and De Lesseps met again. Then, pudgy Said was the ruler of Egypt and Ferdinand had resigned from the consular service. Said Pasha invited De Lesseps to come to Egypt, was quickly won over to the canal project...
...experimental spirit of college theater is too low, its energy is almost too great. There are obviously not enough actors to supply all the sixteen groups, and as a result the same performers can be found in the productions of three or four societies during a single year. Some groups, such as the one which recently staged The Barber of Seville, go to the length of recruiting as much as two-fifths of their cast from outside the University...