Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just been informed that we have a handicap of minus fifteen. I don't know what this means yet so I'll keep limbering...
...fifteen-year-old high school senior, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 published his first defense of liberalism, a book review in the New England Quarterly. Now a professor of History, Schlesinger is still fighting for liberalism, astounding his colleagues with his energy, and enduring a myth of "youthful arrogance and smugness...
...majority in both parties which has supported our foreign policies over the fifteen years has thus far largely conceived of them as a series of arrangements which will fend off the aggressive and intrusive forces in the world outside and leave us free to work out our own American destiny in our own way. Implicit in such a concept is the persistent conviction that foreign affairs, except when war is imminent, are largely a marginal consideration...
...BOOKS). Tom occupied the corner for a year. By day the copy boy buzzer was a continual interruption, but late at night, when the big bullpen was dark except for the ceiling reflections of nearby Broadway's neons, he sat under a desk lamp, pipe-smoking and writing. Fifteen times Tom rewrote his book. Late in the summer of 1954 he quit TIME and went off to the cranberry boglands of New Jersey's Toms River country to live alone in a shack and polish the final version of his Korean war story...
...import many consumer items. This, however, is not a vital consideration. Estimates of Russia's gross national product run to about $125 billion (converted to U.S. dollars and purchasing power). Of this, about fifty percent ($62.5 billion) probably goes for consumer items, thirty-five percent to capital investment, and fifteen percent to military uses. If the U.S. were to increase its trade with the U.S.S.R. to the tune of, for example, $200 million, which is practically a 200 percent rise, and if this trade were primarily in consumer goods, it would make a slight difference in the amount of resources...