Word: fifteenths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston Garden. They opened April fifteenth. I bought a big straw hat just to ride the swan boats...
Comeback for Tubes. To meet the growing competition of transistors, RCA demonstrated a vacuum tube only one fifteenth as large as general-purpose miniature tubes in mass production. RCA said the thimble-sized "Nuvistor" tube outperforms regular tubes and transistors in higher frequencies and at higher operating temperatures. When commercial production begins next year, prices will be "competitive" with regular tubes and transistors...
...intellectual aristocracy, its function is essential, and its contents will continue to grow at the present swift rate throughout the coming years.INCUNABULA in the first floor display room of Houghton Library, includes bibliophilic treasures dating from the invention of the printing press in the middle of the fifteenth century. The public is welcomed to this and other displays, but only legitimate scholars are given access to the complete collection of approximately 250,000 volumes...
...handling Columbia its fifteenth loss, and thus ending its own three-game losing streak, the varsity managed to overcome the poor shooting which has hampered its play in the last few games. Though Crimson players hit for only 31 per cent in the first half, the team's shooting improved considerably in the second half to give the varsity a respectable game average of 38 per cent from the floor. Surprisingly enough, however, the Lions managed to out-rebound Harvard in both halves...
...slipped out of the embassy unannounced for a two-hour, three-mile stroll. State Department security men had to hustle to catch up, and got several sharp jolts. Seemingly a stranger to red lights, Mikoyan blithely walked across streets against traffic, brought cars to a screaming halt. On Fifteenth Street, a block from the White House, a heavy gust toppled a street light a few feet from Mikoyan, showering glass splinters around...