Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only fifteen and a Sophmore in high school, but both LIFE and TIME are often discussed in school and it's pretty nice to have them in your home...
Dancing was slow getting under way, as the orchestra played for forty-five minutes to an empty floor. At nine-fifteen an unidentified and determined couple launched proceedings with an original version of the Big Apple, and in five minutes the floor was jammed...
...Prize of $100 was won in competition with the 17 undergraduates who actually took the examination of the 30 who had registered. Fifteen papers were described as "distinctly of passing grade" in the official announcement...
...itself. For centuries builders have witnessed gradual or sudden subsidences of their structures, when not built on solid rock, sometimes with disastrous consequences. It is a perplexing fact that this tremendous amount of human experience did not crystallize into a scientific approach to the mechanics of soils until about fifteen years...
Desiring to advance his reputation, the impulsive Tom took his family to Bath in 1759, then the center of fashionable wealth. Soon his studio became thronged; he raised his prices for half-lengths and had Sterne and Richardson, Quin and Garrick sit for him. Within fifteen years he was in London, prosperous, giving away his sketches and landscapes, dividing the court favor with the American West and that of the city with Reynolds. Among others he painted, sometimes with brushes on sticks six feet long, Sheridan, Burke, Johnson, Franklin, Canning, Lady Montagu, Clive, and Blackstone. Like his more than...