Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...date this enterprising experiment has accomplished nothing, at least nothing that can be reported. Tom Bolles says that it will be ten or fifteen years before the results will be known with anything approaching scientific exactitude...
...Fifteen months later, a battered, be draggled ghost ship, the Wolf again dodged through the British blockade and limped home to her base. Of all German raiders she had outlived all but one.* She had cruised 64,000 miles, through every ocean and most of the British patrols of the world. Not once had she touched port nor spoken another German raider. Her victims totaled 135,000 tons. According to plan, she had mined England's chiel colonial ports, including Singapore. And until one month before her miraculous return the British Admiralty did not even possess a description...
...swing concert last year at Sanders Theater. Between ourselves, it wasn't too good. In fact, it was even less. But shortly thereafter, the outfit was completely reorganized and enlarged. So vast was the change that when Benny Goodman auditioned the band "sat-in" and played with them for fifteen minutes, breaking the clarinet player's reed in the process. And shortly thereafter, Fitch Band Wagon evinced considerable interest in having them on their program sometime during the year...
...three, E. L. Burwell '41 (H); four, E. Clark '40 (H); five, P. Tuttle '40 (H); six, Kirk (N.H); seven, D. Simboli '40 (H); eight, Williams (D); nine, Rivers (N.H.); ten, Bull (D); eleven, Underwood (N.H.); twelve, R. Wing '40 (H); thirteen, R. Jay '42 (H); fourteen, Sanborn (N.H.); fifteen, J. McLoughlin...
...figures show, however, that out of the thirty fields of concentration, fifteen have a total of less than twenty-five per cent of the 2,664 concentrators...