Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Joshua Whatmough--the two have been together so long that one cannot imagine them apart. By 1941, Whatmough had coordinated linguistic studies so well that the creation of the department was feasible. At that time he, himself, did all the necessary typing and paperwork; his total subsidy was fifteen dollars for postage. Today the Department of Linguistics has its own offices and secretaries and a small but growing number of undergraduate concentrators...
...glares across the Red Sea at us. As the bus wound higher into the hills, the elderly lady seated next to me looked at the expression on my face, then eyed Nasser's picture, and, patting my arm, she said, "Never mind, never mind. God will protect us. Fifteen years ago we had nothing here at all. Now see," and she nodded to the kibbutzim riding the crests of the mountains...
...Fifteen Harvard, Yale, and Columbia law students will work this summer on a civil rights project in Washington and in Greenville and Jackson, Miss. The project, financed by private funds, is being organized by William L. Higgs, a Mississippi attorney and former counsel to James Meredith...
...perspective. It does not destroy his objectivity. The great value of Snow's massive collection of personal observation, statistics, anecdotes, and philosophical commentary lies in his intimate acquaintance with the Chinese scene, before and after so to speak. Here is a man who lived in China for about fifteen years before the Revolution, speaks the language, and knows personally China's top leaders. Yet he is an American who admires what is most American in the Chinese Revolution--the new work ethic, social equality, and even some of the puritanism. As an American, however, he regretted the controlled press...
...Crimson now seems very likely to go through the season undefeated. This Saturday's match with perennial powerhouse Dartmouth, to be held at 3:15 p.m. on the rugby field, will be the first real domestic test for the fifteen...