Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fifteen Years ago Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall addressed the first postwar Commencement at Harvard. This is the story of his epochal speech. morning ceremonies and awarding the first 11 honoraries, Conant finally reached General Marshall, "an American to whom freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of this nation...
...brother. The music teacher wanted to organize a quartet and needed a 'cello; also, one day I had seen a 'cello standing in a corner of my teacher's living room. For some reason I was attracted to it." So it happened that the violin teacher began reserving fifteen minutes at the end of each lesson for work on the 'cello...
...three years after the young musician won a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the Philadelphia Orchestra dismissed all of its German players, among them a 'cellist. Leopold Stokowski happened to hear Eisenberg play, and engaged him. He was just fifteen, easily the youngest person ever to play in an American orchestra. "I had to lie about my age to get a union card," muses Eisenberg. "I said I was seventeen...
Showing no signs of letting up, Coach Munro's stickmen scored six times the first fifteen-minute span...
...Fifteen fun-loving freshmen staged an ingenious prank last night. It went something like this: these here humorous people snuck into the Union (after it was closed and locked for the night!) and unscrewed a tremendous, ugly cannon barrel from its base, somewhere in the basement of that building. Then, after tremendous exertions, they lugged it upstairs and (can you believe it?) propped it up diagonally in the door to the dining room. Well, everyone was tremendously amused, you may be assured. They all laughed immoderately...