Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fifteen years ago, the tailback who wore Princeton's orange-and-black jersey No. 42 was the nation's No. 1 college football player and the choice of every pro team (TIME cover, Nov. 19, 1951). Having passed, punted and rushed the Tigers to 22 straight victories-still a record-Heisman Trophy Winner Richard William Kazmaier neatly straight-armed a pro draft ("With only one league, there was never that much money no matter how good you were"), opted for Harvard Business School. Now 35, his hair thinning slightly and his weight about ten pounds over...
...book contains fifteen public speeches which demonstrate conclusively how bad a public speaker Faulkner was. I am convinced that the girls in the graduating class of Pine Manor J.C. in 1953 can scarcely recall today Faulkner's extended metaphysical diatribe on God and the Devil. Aside from his widely-celebrated speech upon acceptance of the Nobel Prize and his speeches at the University of Virginia (already collected in Faulkner in the University), the speeches are too brief and dull for publication...
...represent the American government and can work in places where political problems are delicate. This year two teachers are going to Bechuanaland; at least four will be teaching refugees from Mozambique and Rhodesia. Draft boards, however, grant deferment to V.T.A. as well as Peace Corps members; only two of fifteen members this year have been refused. V.T.A. teachers are presently training by studying Swahili and teaching English to Puerto Ricans in Boston's South...
...marks the score: "At the Armistice in November 1918, just under eight hundred [in the battalion] had been killed in action, including thirty-two officers, which is in fact almost exactly the combat strength of an infantry battalion. And of course, there were the wounded, not less than another fifteen hundred...
...Fifteen Crimson swimmers, competing today in the Eastern Seaboard Championships at Annapolis, will not bring any team honors to Harvard, but four or five individual performers should make strong showings...