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Word: fifteens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first period, Harvard went into a huddle and was called to attention by W. J. Leather, vice-captain and 200-lb. forward of the Cambridge fifteen. Huddles are not allowed in rugby. Aside from this foolish faux pas, the Harvard rugby team in New York last week gave a much better account of itself than Cambridge would have been likely to do at U. S. football. When the first 40-min period ended, the score was only 26-to-10 for Cambridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rugger | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...heart of Kentucky's bluegrass lands, 30 mi. west of Paris and 10 mi. north of Versailles, is Spring Station. Fifteen people live there. It is 600 mi. to the nearest track of the Southern Pacific R. R. The Louisville & Nashville railroad runs through Spring Station but no trains stop except on flag. Last week a train did stop and out of a private car stepped 15 directors and employes of the Southern Pacific Co. They marched into a one-room brick building. There in a space 25 by 25 ft. the two-billion-dollar railroad system held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Huddle in a Hamlet | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...bestow such compliments before the performance is not mere idle chatter. The purpose is to indicate what inexhaustible possibilities there are for a large and skillfully trained mixed chorus. For the last fifteen years the Harvard Glee Club under Dr. Davison has made its reputation in this country and in Europe not only as a chorus of high calibre, but as a disseminator of good music. Through the combined efforts of Dr. Davison, Thomas Whitney Surette, and the Concord School of Music, the gospel has successfully been spread until it is now universally accepted. The work of the Glee Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACCELERANDO | 4/14/1934 | See Source »

...strong and experienced Cambridge University fifteen decisively defeated the Harvard Rugby Club at New York, 41 to 18, on Saturday. Don Meiklejohn was high scorer for the Harvard outfit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS OVER THE RECESS | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...beau, remembers a rainy night in Paris that brought him a lucky meeting with a beautiful girl of the streets, new to her business. Too late he wants to find her again. Fifteen years after, he sees a beautiful skull in a friend's studio, has an inescapable feeling that it is hers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neo-Gothic | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

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