Word: 15th
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...15th annual Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Awards Banquet, the council recognized the work of one senior Faculty member, one junior Faculty member and one teaching fellow...
...15th-ranked Harvard men's tennis team finally had a chance to display its awesome talent to the home crowd at the Beren Tennis Center this weekend. After two months of competition on the road, the Crimson (18-3) did not disappoint the locals...
...centuries go, this has been one of the most amazing: inspiring, at times horrifying, always fascinating. Sure, the 15th was pretty wild, with the Renaissance and Spanish Inquisition in full flower, Gutenberg building his printing press, Copernicus beginning to contemplate the solar system and Columbus spreading the culture of Europe to the Americas. And of course there was the 1st century, which if only for the life and death of Jesus may have had the most impact of any. Socrates and Plato made the 5th century B.C. also rather remarkable. But we who live in the 20th can probably...
Philip C. Gale, a 19 year-old MIT undergraduate, apparently jumped out of a 15th floor window of an MIT science building shortly after 7:30 p.m. last Friday night. Gale was pronounced dead on arrival at Massachusetts General Hospital...
Your article "Inside Starr and his Operation" [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 9] said Starr's critics have taken to calling the grand-jury room "the Starr Chamber." It's interesting to note that a star chamber was a court that existed in Britain from the 15th century until 1641 and exercised wide jurisdiction under rules suited to the purposes of absolutist sovereigns. This court met in secret without a jury, used torture to force confessions and handed down severe judgments. Dictionaries define a star chamber as any tribunal or investigating body that is similarly unjust and inquisitorial. If the star chamber...