Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winters clearing 12 ft., 6 in. to take second place. The Terrier mile relay team beat a motley crew of Harvardmen in 3:34.4. Awori, Anderson, Lynch, and Neil Houston beat a Providence foursome at the same distance with Lynch going ahead in the last lap to win by fifteen yards...
Walt's strategy for this race was the same plan that had worked so well in the Heptagonals and the IC4A's--to go out fast and set the pace. But his starting position was such that he had to wade through four inches of snow over the first fifteen yards of the course, and by the time he emerged from the icy morass, the more advantaged runners were packed in front...
...would see something beatific in her flat face. I feel the same way when I am walking alone on an empty rainy street very late at night and I come upon a billboard on the side of a building, all lit up, and there is a huge face fifteen feet across, looking out at nothing, like Buddha...
...claims Bennington Art Professor Feeley, "has to do with something that has presence but isn't unduly urgent, that brings you to it rather than projects itself upon you." His sensuous colors don't scream for attention, but they are thoroughly seductive once they get it. Fifteen works in plastic paint on unsized canvas. Through...
...Ball," George A. K. Armah describes a little boy who disobeys his mother once, is punished, and is puzzled by life. That's all. Within fifteen lines the style varies from "Behind the soft sweetness of the aaahh there is hidden a mighty pain which will not be satisfied until the sea has exacted its vengeance," to "It was not that his mother was cruel or anything like that...