Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closest team fight and some of the classiest competition in the fifteen years of Triangular Meet competition is scheduled for tomorrow night when the track and field athletes of Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell meet at the Boston Garden. Two of the events are scheduled in the afternoon at the Briggs Cage at Soldiers Field. The 16-pound shot put and the 35-pound weight throw will be held there at 2.30 o'clock. The eleven other Track and field events will take place at the Garden along with a special Freshman 50 Yard Dash and relay which do not figure...
...C.W.A. has made these appropriations available to colleges and universities in order that needy students may continue in college for the balance of the academic year. The administrator is Harry Hopkins. The average amount of these allotments is fifteen dollars per student for those students who cannot continue in college without it. Another provision is that only such students who do high-grade work are eligible for the allotment. All those receiving grants will have to work for a definite period of time each week on some intramural...
...Emergency Employment Fund, made its own adjustment to the problems of the needy undergraduate. The adjustment is a special one, made for a student body unlike those of the majority of American colleges. It is a student body whose depression problems can be solved, not by an arbitrary fifteen dollars a month, such as the CWA gift would prescribe, but by a coordination of loans, scholarships, and employment, made to individuals after a personal examination of their requirements. A college whose minimum expenses are twelve hundred dollars a year does not possess many men to whom fifteen dollars a month...
...reflection on the army that it cannot carry the mail without accidents. Airmail flying is different from army aviation. The army flyers who crashed were many miles off their courses. In the whole year of 1933 the total number of total accidents to airmail flyers numbered fifteen, but in the short space of seven days the army lost five men. The airmail companies, of course, had such losses when they first started. But all the dishonesty in the aviation companies never was sufficient to warrant the sacrifice of five lives...
...money behind the business seems to have raised the average age of the Babbitts to seventeen instead of twelve. When the Metropolitan Opera Company can be heard without interruption for a whole Saturday afternoon, when we may enjoy the Philadelphia Symphony fifteen minutes nightly, when Koussevitsky is on the air from three to five every Sunday, there is certainly balm in our etherial Gilead. Those are, of course, the high spots. But the steady listener cannot have failed to appreciate the general improvement of the average program. Whether it is because the technical developments in both transmitting and receiving apparatus...