Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes," he continued, "we have to examine the body for as much as fifteen minutes to tell." And on rare occasions, the Smithsonian will itself be fooled, passing on a false discovery as a true...
Businessmen today readily recognize that a good university executive may have the makings of a topflight corporation officer-and universities likewise know that a learned business leader may be just the man to head up a college. Fifteen years ago, when the New York Stock Exchange was searching for a new face to give some depth to its public image, it chose as president George Keith Funston, then head of Trinity College. Last week the pendulum swung the other way when Connecticut's Wesleyan University announced that its new president will be Edwin Deacon Etherington, 41, president...
...there is still no young blood. The purged officials have been replaced by others who have spent fifteen years or so with the party, often with the same political views as their predecessors...
Brutus' young page Lucius is the only character Shakespeare did not find in Plutarch, and he was invented chiefly to illustrate Brutus' considerateness of others. Fifteen-year-old Alan Howard plays him ardently and appealingly. When he falls asleep in the midst of singing and plucking his harp, Brutus affectionately covers him with a gown. When, after the battle at Philippi, Lucius is carried in, lain on the ground and tenderly shrouded in a blanket, one is more moved than by the death of any of the play's principals...
...Corner an isolated reflection of events of the past several decades. Walk away from Harvard Square in any direction and the parked cars tell the story. They are from Connecticut, Wisconsin, New York, and West Virginia. The Massachusetts plates are there, but not until the Square is a good fifteen or twenty minutes away do they really push aside their out-of-state competitors...