Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Straits. Smaller (4,900 tons) than the luckless Chelyuskin (6,500 tons), it had special ice-breaking equipment which enabled it to crunch indomitably through the pack. When it put in at Wrangel last week the colonists, their belongings packed and their long exile over, shed tears of joy. Fifteen scientists went ashore to replace the departing six. Mme Semenchuk. wife of the new station chief, presented a bouquet to Mme Mineyev, wife of the retiring chief. No one had ever before seen flowers on Wrangel Island...
...Fifteen-minute Service in the University Memorial Chapel, conducted by Professor Kenneth B. Murdock, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Fifteen-minute Service in the University Memorial Chapel, conducted by the Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry, Chairman of the Board of Preachers...
...Fifteen miles out of Cleveland is rustic, somnolent Berea (pop. 6.000) whose chief industry is Cleveland Quarries Co.. whose chief ornament is Baldwin-Wallace College, and whose chief glory is Raymond Moley. Three generations of Moleys have lived in or near Berea. From his native Berea went Raymond Moley to profess politics in Cleveland's Western Reserve University, to direct the Cleveland Foundation, to investigate crime in Ohio and in New York, to profess government and public law at Columbia University, to be Franklin Delano Roosevelt's chief economic adviser, his chief Braintruster. his Assistant Secretary...
...there quite alone over his coffee. The streets were crowded outside. Cheers told us of the coming of Franz Ferdinand. Princip got up calmly and paid his bill and walked out. Fifteen minutes later people rushed in and told me that Princip had stood calmly against the barber shop on the corner and fired two shots...