Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seventy colleges invited him to apply for admission. Setting his sights on an Ivy League education, he finally narrowed his choice to Dartmouth, Columbia, and Harvard. "I eliminated Dartmouth first," Rich recalls in his soft European accent. "I lived in the sticks for fifteen years in Poland, and I wanted to be near a city...
...civil rights movement. A few SNCC veterans started the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee (CRCC), an organization designed to recruit and educate Harvard students to the ways of activism and to the cause of the Southern Negro. In two years, SRCC grew to 1000 members with about ten to fifteen regular activists. It was the biggest thing at Harvard...
After that, it was all Harvard. The first score came midway through the first period when Montero pressured Damigella, forcing the goalie to drop the ball,, fifteen feet in front of the goal. Center-forward Ahmed Yehia then drilled the ball in for the first of his three tallies...
Raoul Bott, professor of Mathematics who, incidentally, directed Smale's doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan some fifteen years ago, and five others whose names were withheld from the press, sent a letter yesterday to the director of the NSF, Leland J. Haworth. In it, Bott referred to what he called "political pressures" which affected the NFS's decision to reject Smale's request for a continuation of his present grant...
...obviously none of my business--though I am entitled to my own views about the effect on thoughtful readers of this sort of rhetorical overkill. What does concern me is the possible distortion of motives and effects implicit in your discussion of last week's visit to Washington by fifteen members of this Faculty...