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Word: fifteens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need and will to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour, he was the first to rise." That this "conversion" had taken place, no one doubted. Said Prison Warden E. J. Lloyd: "Sure, the ministers do that all the time. And there are always ten or fifteen men who raise their hands or rise. I don't know whether they really mean it or not." What Warden Lloyd did know, however, was that a prison rule forbade clergymen to talk publicly about such matters. When Baptist Thweatt's story got in the press last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bitter Thweatt | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...harder journeys were anticlimactic. He raised the U. S. flag in California before the Mexican War broke out. He was born out of wedlock and married in haste. He fell in love with smart, ambitious Jessie Benton, daughter of Missouri's great Senator, but she was only fifteen; he married her secretly two years later, before he had her father's consent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blurred Life | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Celebrating the second day of spring, DeWitt Fischman '39 won a ten dollar bet by walking to Wellesley in less than three hours and fifteen minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIKES TO WELLESLEY | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

...limited possibilities of short features. As soon as Hollywood stops sending out grade "e" concoctions and produces some well done athletic, scientific, or humorous features, the newsreel theatres may find themselves very popular. Walt Disney, Robert Benchley, and Time Magazine have already demonstrated the possibilities of the fifteen minute film, but the ghastly fillers must be removed before theatres like the new Telepix can be sure of success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Tucker Burr '39, and Graham Blaine '40 were each fined fifteen dollars today for their Charles River ice walking escapade on Saturday. Burr will be tried to assault and battery charges on June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ice Walkers Fined | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

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