Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What's more, a Massachusetts law now pending may slap a dollar tax on every barrel. Stick around, you may soon see a fifteen cent helping of hops . . . and still no free lunch...
...History and Literature department is ordinarily limited to fifty Harvard and fifteen Radcliffe students from each clas. It is usually oversubscribed...
Shortly after, approximately fifteen people were admitted to the Center. Thursday is the regular night for Fr. Feeney's public lecture and meeting. A sign on the door of the Center announced, "Closed to the Public, open only to members of the school." Students of the College who attempted to get in before the arrival of Fr. Feeney were turned away at the door...
...Memorable Day." One day in that year, Founder William Barton Rogers scribbled in his diary: "Organized the School! Fifteen students entered. May not this prove a memorable day!" Rogers, a former professor of natural philosophy at the University of Virginia, began his school in one room of Boston's shabby Mercantile Building. By the following fall, he had a faculty of ten (including Harvard's future president Charles W. Eliot); by the time he died 17 years later, in the middle of a commencement speech, M.I.T. was well...
...Fifteen New Jerseyites flocked to Phillips Brooks House last night to form a new club, the Society for the Propagation and Advancement of New Jersey...