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Word: fifteens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University, that big ogre, requires some undergraduates to walk fifteen minutes to the B-School parking lot every time they want to use their cars. Though spring is here and the path is clear, in winter this journey becomes Dangerous as well as Bothersome; extensive ice patches cover the untended foot bridges over the river and Soldiers' Field Road...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Primrose Path | 3/27/1963 | See Source »

Crimson sailors expect stiff competition from Brown and Yale when they seek to capture the McMillan Cup, at the U.S. Naval Academy this weekend. The event will be sailed by 44-foot yawls in three fifteen-mile races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailing Squad to Seek McMillan Cup at Navy | 3/26/1963 | See Source »

...good and socially helpful (not to say advantageous) wife, and perhaps to take up a career later in life. It is not difficult to see why Smith has been labelled the great finishing school of upper-middle class suburban wives: little imagination is required to envision these girls in fifteen years, still pretty and still smiling, in their car coats and station wagons, driving the kids around town in Stamford, Connecticut or Shaker Heights, Ohio...

Author: By J.michael Crichton, | Title: Smith College: The Middle Way | 3/26/1963 | See Source »

...Ramblers overcame a fifteen-point second half deficit and deadlocked the game with four seconds remaining. They won it on a tip-in by Vic Rouse with one second left in the overtime period...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Clutch Overtime Basket Wins Loyola NCAA Title | 3/25/1963 | See Source »

...from unjustified; Powell as usual, has cut no more corners than other Congressmen, but he has cut them far wider than most. The Corps was one of 16 groups to receive grants from the President's Committee on Youth Crime to found anti-delinquency projects last year. Fifteen of these have not been heard from since...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Rep. Powell and the 'Peace Corps' | 3/23/1963 | See Source »

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