Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first problem that confronts us at Harvard is, of course, the question of who should be admitted to residence. Education cannot make scholars out of hoboes or active leaders out of pedants. At present a man can come here by accumulating fifteen points on "old-plan" examinations that have been spread out over a long period of time: sheer memory work will get him to college. Or he can come if he passes four "new-plan" examinations, or by standing well up in his class at the secondary school. In other words, a man who has done his work...
...Fifteen people had ready a hot potato to drop into the hand of Mother Presbyterian Church last week. They were the special Commission on Marriage, Remarriage and Divorce; the hot potato was the section of their report, published last April (TIME, May 4), which recommended that Mother Church approve Birth Control for her children (see p. 32). In Pittsburgh last week were convening more than 900 Commissioners to the 143rd annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. To a hotel three miles from that part of Pittsburgh where delegates were registering the 15 hurried, there...
...dinner party an unskillfully inebriated gentleman spys some hors d'oevres in the form of anchovies and exclaims expectantly, "Ah, oysters. My favorite fruit." On an equally high level was another very popular remark; the wife, in reply to the husband's complaint that her uncle owes him fifteen dollars remarks that the debt has probably slipped the avuncular mind. To which her spouse nearly rejoins. "If probably has. And how" so much for the play's good points...
...Fifteen members of the Faculty will be on leave of absence during the next year, at one time or another, it was announced yesterday at University Hall. Three of these men will be on leave during the first half year; five during the second, and the remainder are to be absent for the whole year...
...Wilson, the Copper River fur trapper has lived along the river for the last fifteen or more years or his life. He has been missing since Christmas day. No traces of him have yet been seen. He lives right across from the old Indian village of Taral which has been battered down. It is about 4 or 5 miles down the track from Chitina, which is M. 131. The R. R. boys have very frequently seen him get his mail because he has to walk across the ice to the Railroad side of the river to get to his mail...