Word: sixteener
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...been everywhere in America during the last sixteen years," he said. "I've learned to know the people, and when you know people you like them, I like America, and I like her people...
...last years he became a director of the Associated Press and President of the New England Daily Newspapers Association, and received orders from King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy and King Albert of Belgium. Sixteen months ago he underwent an operation from which he never fully recovered...
...football machines of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton will require many repairs before going through another season. The championship Yale team loses 18 letter-men by graduation. Sixteen Harvard men have made their last gridiron appearance, and Princeton, faring slightly better, will have to replace 13 departing players. All three colleges, however, have strong foundations to build upon. The Crimson can count upon nine letter men returning, seven of whom may be classed as regulars. Ten Yale men will be back in college, and Princeton will have 14 to pick from...
...chief merits of Goldoni are an inexhaustible fertility of invention--in one year he announced and executed a program of sixteen comedies--and an unfailing sprightliness in the dialogue...
...with the impossibility of including in the volume excerpts from the moving pictures themselves, as Mantle includes selections from the written drama, Sherwood overcomes the obstacle by giving reviews of the different films, with the plots, casts of characters, and methods of production. In this manner he has taken sixteen representative photoplays of the season 1922-1923, which he considers the best of the field. It is, of course, the prerogative of anyone to quarrel with the choice of matter included in an anthology; but whether Sherwood's choice of the best movies meets with everyone's approval...