Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Howland and Baker, 25 mi. apart, are some 1,100 mi. due west of Jarvis. Howland was first sighted by Captain George E. Netcher out of New Bedford in 1842. Fifteen years later the U. S. S. St. Mary's formally took the islands for the U. S. What, then, was all the official secrecy about in reclaiming this land? The answer seemed to lie in a brand new factor in Pacific diplomacy: transoceanic airlines...
...before yesterday, it was Louis Amberg, an innocent martyr, if there ever was one, not only in death but throughout his whole adult life. Fifteen times an unjust society had called him into court for homicide, assault with intent to kill, and other such vile offenses. And fifteen times the poor fellow, with his reputation nevertheless ruined, was able easily to prove that he was as innocent as a new born lamb...
...Fifteen Freshmen from leading preparatory schools have been awarded prize Scholarships for the current year...
...Fifteen Winners...
...successor to Edward Sanford Martin '77 who retires after fifteen years in "The Chair," Do Voto steps into the oldest editorial post in America, begun in 1853 under the editorship of George William Curtis and continued from 1900 to 1920 by William Dean Howells...