Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letters, now weighs the choice of his future career, he must be ready, unless already economically independent, to fact the fact that, at the outset of his academic service if that be chosen, and probably for some years to come, perhaps as many as ten or fifteen, he must postpone marriage, turn aside from the temptation to travel, live in extremely modest circumstances and content himself with half the stipend of a junior clerk who has gone straight from the elementary school or from the high school to a business house. To speak bluntly, this is a preposterous situation...
Every year U. S. husbandmen produce 150,000,000 tons of cornstalks. A small part they chop up and put in silos for winter feed, a small part they leave standing for forage, the rest they plow under for fertilizer. Fifteen years ago Dr. Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College began to look for cornstalk byproducts. Five years ago Iowa built him a $150.000 testing plant, the U. S. Bureau of Standards began to help with men and money. Dr. Sweeney produced and the state of Iowa patented a cornstalk wallboard, light, strong, cheap. Last week a million-dollar...
...Furthermore, if the United States continues to pay off her own internal war debt at the present rate, she will have paid it off in about fifteen years. When this happens the Allied Powers are likely to raise objections to making further payments on their war debts to the United States for they would seem to be paying the running expenses of the United States instead of helping her to pay off Liberty Loans. Finally, the United States tariff policy, and the inevitable economic laws relating to international trade may make our worthy Senators and statesmen realize the futility...
...personal friend of Theodore Dreiser permit me to suggest that his brother Paul has been dead for more than fifteen years. (See Twelve Men-"My Brother Paul.") He in collaboration with his brother Theodore wrote our famous State song, "On the Banks of the Wabash" and not "The Wabash Blues." There is a movement on foot in Terre Haute, Ind., to bring the body of Paul Dresser back to Indiana and bury it with honors in a beautiful park beside the Wabash River. ARTHUR H. SAPP...
...thorough-going adoption of a quadrangle system by Yale, announced only, fifteen months after the refusal to try the arrangement, which preceded the gift of Mr. Harkness to Harvard, is somewhat unexpected. Yale authorities felt two years ago that Yale was not ripe for any form of house plan; it might still be to their advantage if they were to proceed more slowly than the intended rehousing of the college by 1938-34 indicates, and to keep a close watch on the trend of affairs at Cambridge. Meanwhile, there may be reciprocal benefits from the method of trial and error...