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Word: fifteens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though fifteen years ago the Club opened its ladies Annex, there is no danger of forgetting that it is, and will remain, what it has been for more than 90 years: a men's social club, one of whose membership requirements is a connection with Harvard University...

Author: By Paul H. Plotz, | Title: Harvard Club of New York: Social Focus for the Locals | 1/8/1957 | See Source »

David D. Galloway '59, of Adams House and Memphis, received a head injury in the collision of a Greyhound bus and a tractor-trailer near Lexington, Ky. The crash, which occurred Jan. 4, killed six people, including the driver. Fifteen were hospitalized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Galloway Injured in Greyhound Accident | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...Fifteen years after Pearl Harbor, Japan's new younger generation is tall (a statistical two centimeters taller than their elders), tempestuous and troubled. Like the pale young Parisians maundering in existentialism when the tide of war ebbed from the Left Bank, like the Teddy Boys of postwar London posturing on street corners in their shabby pseudo-Edwardian finery like pathetic barnyard roosters, like the slack-jawed worshipers of Elvis Presley and their spiritual ancestors in the U.S., the hootch-swilling hellions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920s, the truants of Japan have no place to run but away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Rising Sun Tribe | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Graduate School of Education will head the program. Participants will take courses in the sciences and in education during the year. Fifteen other colleges and universities have received grants and a total of 750 teachers will take part in the nation-wide program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teachers Gain Aid | 12/13/1956 | See Source »

...school department (Brockton, Mass.) sent us desks and chairs. Using her own original system, my mother telescoped six grammar grades into one year of home study. We went to school for the first time in the sixth grade at eight years of age; graduated from high school at fifteen and went to Radcliffe College or the Sorbonne or M.I.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1956 | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

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