Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This new trend in Reunion behavior has been developing for some time. Edward A. Weeks, Jr. '22 spotted it back in the thirties, and commented: "It is no longer necessary to break three hundred glasses and fifteen windowpanes in order to prove that you've been college graduates for six years. Amen! Amen!, sigh the hotel proprietors on the Cape...
Participants should submit the names of fifteen selections, (the number of honoraries has been between 13 and 15 in the past four years) on a sheet of plain paper, to the CRIMSON office, at 14 Plympton Street. The contest will close on the final day of the term, June...
...Fifteen members of the Senate Agriculture Committee gathered around their coffin-shaped conference table to consider the House farm bill and plowed into the task with astonishing efficiency. Behind their workmanlike approach last week was a revelation: mail from home has indicated that the farm revolt has been brewing less on the land than in the minds of election-sensitive politicians...
...running a slight temperature. Sally would not eat her oatmeal, and it had looked like rain; so the wash had to be hung in the garage. Admitted the columnist: "My efficiency rating took a nose dive. I failed to get dinner started. I got the kids to bed fifteen minutes late...
...Portland, Me. When Hollywood turned Mulford's plug-ugly, hell-for-leather Hoppy into a handsome, clean-living dude (played by William Boyd since 1935), Author Mulford let out a pained cry ("an absolutely ludicrous character''), saw only six versions on celluloid, none on TV. Fifteen years ago, after grinding out more than 100 western novels and short stories, stay-at-home Author Mulford rebelled at high federal income taxes, quit writing altogether...