Word: sixteener
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...girl's voice: "If you use Morse Code you get "MIGEE" and that's Fibber McGee, and that mean's he's lying and is in trouble." She was absolutely convinced, too. A Radcliffe girl said the WAVES had helped. No beer. Then a mother phoned, said her daughter "Sixteen years old and looks like Veronica Lake"--had got "Am in a mess" by crossing out words, the most common method among unfortunates...
...Sixteen companies are now producing 100-octane gasoline; Standard Oil of New Jersey alone is making over 60 times as much as it did two years ago. Said President Gallagher: "Iso-octane-the ingredient which makes this fuel so powerful-cost $30 a gallon when first used in the laboratories. By 1933 the price had dropped to $16. A year later 1,000 gallons were sold to the U.S. Army for $2 a gallon. Today it is between...
...Modern War was what Author Peter Marsh Stanford called his unorthodox proposal. Besides four 14-in. guns it would carry, as anti-aircraft protection, twenty-four 5-in. and eighteen 40-mm. guns, four multiple pom-poms plus machine guns, six planes with two catapults on the quarterdeck and sixteen 21-in. torpedo tubes. Such a mighty cruiser, said Stanford, would be necessarily shorter, fatter and slower than the Brooklyn, but anyway "no ship can ever be designed fast enough to run away from enemy aircraft...
Thirteen different men have been chosen in sixteen years?with one man picked three times and one man twice...
Nothing brings out the artist in able Painter Julien Binford like a chocolaty skin. His Negroes are something that Negroes admire. Sixteen new Binfords made his one-man show last week at Manhattan's Midtown Galleries look like a black-belt village on Saturday afternoon. The canvases showed Negroes playing harmonicas, shooting craps, teaching Sunday school, and a vigorous study of two bucks locked together in a razor fight (one of Painter Binford's childhood memories). In most of these pictures, somber tones of the sooty bodies and faces stood out in contrast to the brilliant light...