Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must be noted, however, that any assurance probably came to Coach Lloyd Jordan about 17 minutes too early against Brown Saturday. The varsity then led the Bruins 27 to 7. Fifteen minutes later, after heavy substitutions and some charity kicks, Jordan would have traded a good portion of the quick kicks in Harvard history for possession of the ball. Brown had roared back to make the score 27 to 20 and had a first down on the varsity's six yard line...
...rabbit's nose and containing a special filter. In the murk outside the Tottenham Court tube station, one Londoner-Shipping Clerk Dennis Michaels, 24, was actually seen wearing a gauze mask. Some passers-by stared and laughed. "How's the operation going, Doc?" called one. Fifteen minutes later, Dennis took off his mask. "It might be all right if everyone wore one," he said, "but it just looks silly if you're on your...
...Boswell was not easily discouraged. He saw Rousseau several more times, though the Frenchman threatened to have him keep his watch out on the table and allow him fifteen minutes. Boswell also brought his moral problems to Rousseau in spite of an unprecedented indifferences on the latter's part. Counseling Boswell was easy, however, as readers of his London Journal will remember: Rousseau advises him to leave the lady to her husband...
...Fifteen pretty girls brought their carefully catalogued charms and mountains of luggage to London last week and, in a polyglot babel of perfumed chatter, settled into a once-quiet, family-type hotel just off the Strand. One of them was destined to become Miss World...
...admits, "I was in a group of boys with exceptionally high IQ's who were chosen to complete their education at Dalton, an ultra-progressive school. Our introduction to progressive education didn't last long, though, because they couldn't hold us down. Anyway, I graduated when I was fifteen...