Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fifteen years ago in Zurich a spindly, pint-sized girl of 17 marched onto the stage of the old Schanspielhaus and solemnly pretended to be an unfolding flower, a crow hopping in the fields, a shackled slave fighting fate. The girl had no claim to beauty. Nor had she been trained as a dancer. But the audience was polite because her father was editor of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung and had indulgently hired the hall. After that Trudi Schoop would probably have remained forever unknown if she had not undertaken one day to portray a tree in a storm...
...from the Baltic to the shores of the Pacific, there is such a fury of building as the world never saw. In the coming year the Soviets will spend 32 billion rubles on a building program which, in the valuation of Russian materials and Russian labor, represents between fifteen and twenty billions of dollars...
...Brooklyn police bureau of the New York Daily News a staff photographer named Robert Flint Cranston got word that a woman had been killed in a traffic accident about three miles away. In fifteen minutes Cameraman Cranston was on the scene of what promised to be a dull, routine assignment. The street corner was jammed with Brooklynites pushing and shoving to get a glimpse of Rose Samanoff's corpse lying on the pavement. Police reserves arrived, shooed off all but newsmen and one man who leaned against a doorway and wept. Photographer Cranston saw him approach the body, stare...
Bunker selected his assistants with the aid of Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr. '36, Student Councilman in charge of Freshman Affairs, and of Francis Keppel '38, ex-chairman of the Red Book. Advice was also proffered by first-year officials. Personal interviews with some fifteen candidates determined the final choice...
...Vagabond's journey this morning takes us back some hundred and seventeen years. James Fenimore Cooper is about thirty years sour on life; and no less pugnacious and determined than fifteen years ago, when he was gently booted out of Yale for insubordination. But that's all back of him now; as well as his career on a merchant vessel seeing Europe for the first time and later as a midshipman in the United States navy...