Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shortly after 8 a. m. There it was filled out by John Boettiger, 34, and Anna Roosevelt Dall, 28. Justice Frederic Kernochan, friend and fishing companion of the President, performed the ceremony. It was hardly over when the telephone rang and Father Roosevelt gave his congratulations to bride & groom. Fifteen minutes later the President's daughter was speeding away, her heart aflutter, in John Boettiger's automobile...
...Camels were invented the U.S. was producing about ten billion cigarets a year, a large proportion Turkish. Leading domestic brands like Piedmont and Sweet Caporal were made of unblended Carolina leaf. The year Tobaccoman Reynolds launched his cigaret of blended domestic and Turkish tobacco (1913), cigaret consumption leaped to fifteen and a half billion. He followed it up with a highly successful merchandising campaign, profited immensely by the amazing luck that fell to the tobacco industry during and after the nerve-racking years of the War. Since 1913 nearly every major brand has adopted the fundamental Camel merchandising and blending...
...seventh of fifteen matches played, Glidden, American intercollegiate finalist, defeated H. Lancaster, of Montreal, 16-17, 15-12, 15-9, 15-3, while in the twelfth engagement, Sargent, intercollegiate champion, defeated H. Martin, of Hamilton, Ontarie...
Apparent discrimination against residents of Cambridge who are students in a Harvard College makes it pertinent to call attention at this time to certain salient facts concerning scholarship aid to Cambridge students. Out of a total income of ten thousand dollars (listed two years ago as fifteen thousand) from a bequest by Daniel A. Buckley to the University a number of local students are given financial aid each year but it is hardly likely from the number assisted and the amounts received than all this money is used each year...
...Freshmen entering from Cambridge public schools who are in need of financial assistance are given a scholarship or aid of four hundred dollars. An examination of the records of the past six years indicates, however, that only an average of fifteen Freshmen scholarships are given. It should be pointed out, moreover, that some Freshmen lose these at mid-years because of scholarships are given. It should be pointed out, moreover, that some Freshmen lose these at mid-years because of scholastic standing and thus some money reverts to fund. This means that at least four thousand dollars are available...