Word: sixteener
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...Sixteen members of the United Nations Secretariat Council were introduced yesterday to the University's Seismographic station at Harvard, Massachusetts, where they are spending a four day weekend...
...Sixteen hundred scholars will attend the International Congress of Mathematicians to be held at the University late this summer. Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Mathematics, announced yesterday that the conference--the first since 1936--will attract 300 experts from abroad. The congress is the leading international organization of mathematicians...
...stay on at least third dean's list in order to get tutorial instruction. They must have had three years of high school Latin, two years of high school Greek, or acquire a grade of B or over in any term of Latin 1-2 here. Eight full, or sixteen half, courses must be included in their plan of study, of which three only may be in related fields...
...says: "I began to fight. They had me under an oxygen tent. I tore it apart and picked up a pitcher. I heaved it at the radio and scored a direct hit. The radio flew apart and Winchell's voice stopped. Then I got well." Sixteen months later, at the request of his old friend General "Hap" Arnold, he went off on an inspection tour of World War II air bases in the Pacific, and found himself face to face with death once more...
...front feet pawing the steep slope ... I ended on a narrow ledge lying on my stomach, uninjured. I started to rise. I glanced up. I looked into the face of an avalanche. Kendall had slipped, and fallen, too ... rolling down over the same thirty precipitous yards I had traversed . . . Sixteen hundred pounds of solid horseflesh rolled me flat. I could hear my own bones break in a sickening crescendo ... I lay paralyzed with pain-twenty-three of twenty-four ribs broken...