Word: sixteener
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...Quentin, Prisoner Mooney left his potato-peeling to hear the decision in the warden's office. Sixteen years behind its grey walls have warped his perspective on the world at large and rendered him ''stir daffy."* Hoping for nothing from Governor Rolph, Mooney declared: "This makes me the outstanding figure in the world's labor movement and a symbol of the struggle of Labor for its rights." In San Francisco his defense committee exclaimed that he "had no chance whatever of receiving a fair and impartial hearing from representatives of as unprincipled a bunch of pirates...
...Sixteen men reported at the pool in the first meeting of the Life Saving Training Corps and will continue to report on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons for either of the two classes scheduled on these days in preparation for the Examiner's test, which will be given some time after the middle of April. One class is from 3 to 4 o'clock and the other from 4 to 5 o'clock...
With the development of the system of concentration and tutorial work, the necessity for awarding a cum laude in several subjects has become less and less. A vestige of the time when a man was merely required to take sixteen courses no matter what their relationship, it is only based on an accumulation of B grades in nine courses. There is therefore, strong feeling that it should be abolished...
...first baseball work-out of the season was held yesterday afternoon when 25 candidates for battery positions on the University team reported to Coaches Mitchell and Davidson in the Briggs Cage for official practice. Sixteen Freshmen began twirling at 4 o'clock under Coach Rufus Bond who will guide the Freshman nine this season...
...Sixteen years ago a young bride & groom, students at New York University, were hunting for a place to live in upper Manhattan. The landlady at one rooming-house tried to interest them by saying that she never took in Jews. She said the wrong thing. The alert, bright-eyed little groom was of pure Hebrew stock, born in Russia, educated in Palestine. His bride, also Jewish, said as they walked away: "If we ever have a son let us call him Yehudi [which in Hebrew means "a Jew"], and let him stand or fall on his name...