Word: sixteener
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...subject. Galileo is now undergoing examination by the Era and Chronicle; the Index will probably lend a helping hand after it has settled a few more disputed points regarding Napoleon, and then the other papers will drop into line. The Chronicle is getting modest, referring to itself only sixteen times in the last number, instead of over thirty, as in a previous...
...report calls attention to various needs of the University, among which is "a new hall to contain lecture-rooms for the College." "At least sixteen lecture-rooms," it is stated, "are imperatively demanded." Further the University needs a fire-proof building for the Divinity School Library, "a new gymnasium of three times the capacity of the present building," and apparatus and collections for the Fine Arts Department. The President, moreover, calls for three new professorships, namely, a professorship of Jurisprudence, a professorship of ecclesiastical history, and a professorship of hygiene...
...stared at me in a vacant way, and, as he drew from the leg of one of his high boots a suspicious-looking bottle, he muttered, "Sixteen hundred and seventy seven...
...Glee Club numbers sixteen members, and is said to sing very well...
...number of matriculations at Cambridge this year was 659, an increase of sixteen over last year...