Word: sixteener
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Round and round the track for eight days roared the automobiles. Sixteen broke down, but Prince Carol was one of the seven that finished. So fast had been the race that the Rumanian judge "was unable to decide who had won." It was said that the Prince had a good chance of being declared the winner...
...series of eight essays approximates a connected study of what we should call a course. Such, for example, as "Was Magna Carta a reactionary fuedal document?" or "What was the effect of the French Revolution on English Politics and on the reform movement?" The essay should take some sixteen hours of preparation. It is possible to scamp the work a bit, but it is hard to believe that an Oxford tutor could be made to accept an essay taken bodily from the Encyclopedia Britanica, a thing which certainly has been done at Harvard. The pupil reads the essay aloud...
...plutocrat tossed his gold watch (Waltham) into the arena. An animal lover contributed two cats, one live and one dead, followed by a tooth brush. An hospitable Freshman made a present of his door key. Others gave Sixteen Necco wafers and a bottle of soda mints. Among the remaining contributions were one cigar, one lump of sugar, one Boston garter, five beads, one cake of soap, one pipe, one safety pin, and large quantities of assorted fruit, most of which was far beyond its prime...
...Sixteen months have passed since a hitherto little-known Senator?Thomas J. Walsh of Montana?emerged with dust-laden documents, which the public was led to believe contained the fingerprints of monstrous robbers...
...Sixteen members of the lacrosse squad and Manager C. T. Crosby '25 left last night for Schenectady where they will play Union today at 3 o'clock. After as entertainment in their honor this evening, they will leave for Cambridge shortly after midnight. The team is considerably handicapped on this trip by the number of Seniors lost to it through divisional examinations...