Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assault an battery charge, several University and Cambridge policeman testified that either Collins or Waring struck them in the course of the arrest. Fifteen Harvard and Radcliffe students who were within seven to 20 feet of the paddy wagon then testified that they saw no blow struck--that the defendants were merely resisting arrest. The question is not one of whether body contact occurred, but whether, in the confusion, the police were capable of attributing any blow to the right person...
Later, the National Science Foundation agreed to finance Phase II; now Harvard's Department of Anthropology and the Center for Behavioral Sciences support the fifteen Harvard graduate students and undergraduates who go for three months during the summer...
Instead of screaming there is eating. The typical freshman gains fifteen pounds in her first year of dorm life. Girls coming home after dates roam the kitchens looking for snacks. People eat ravenously at dinner as they discuss how fat they are getting and how bad the food is. By over-eating people repeat the vicious circle operating in all parts of dorm life: poor conditions cause strains which are temporarily relieved by aggravating the conditions...
...Boston area, taking stands on local issues, and "going all out for left-liberal local candidates." Schumer himself is not an ideologue and he sees the YD's more as an off-campus missionary than a university debating society (which it never has been anyway). This means recruiting fifteen or twenty people to work on a committee geared for a specific project--such as the Cambridge housing drive or the Cambridge Council elections...
...early. In fact I taught the next year, and I was giving a course on "The Principles of Literary Criticism" and another course on "The Contemporary Novel" to make at little money. Between the two I could survive. In those days and "on approval" in my status could collect fifteen shillings a course from any who came three times...