Word: sixteener
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...PRESENT OWNER OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY" (Dreiser's capitals) to that fact that in Tacoma, Wash, "on February 19, 1931 . . . sixteen men were poisoned by food from the Volunteers of America soup kitchen, from which four died...
First of the sixteen foreign teams ? to arrive in the U. S. were the Norwegian skiers, who won the championship in 1924 and 1928. Sigmund Rudd, whose 265-ft. jump three years ago is the world's record, was one of the 18 members of the team, as was Johann Grottumsbraaten, clothes dealer of Oslo, a slight, baldheaded man of 32, whom most Norwegians consider the greatest skier in the world. The Swedes brought a woman to cook their food, a crack team for the 50-kilometer ski-race...
...farm hands when they made up the cows' beds fresh every morning. As he read the pages and heard stout Alger speak out loud and bold, the Vagabond truly felt like some watcher of the skies. Here was a man-man, did he say?-a youth of sixteen years is more like-who went to the city. On his very first day there, this boy was walking on an icy sidewalk. A dignified gentleman in front of him suddenly slipped and would have fallen had it not been for the quickness of our hero. The gentleman thanked...
Realizing that no tightly-knit piece could be made of Mr. Priestly's rambling and episodic story, the producers have adopted a cinematic technique by which they wander all over England in sixteen scenes. These are well thought out and deftly managed in performance...
...What a ludicrous incident that was Friday! Sixteen lawyers, all good and true, facing an irate court official. . . . If sixteen efficient men of the Virginia bar . . . have no success in pleading a case, it looks like that many men might be 'hefty' enough to remove the court bodily...