Word: fifteenths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American vulgarity. His almost Prussian manner may be an attempt to breach the gap, but it is an inadequate one. If Christopher Plummber had rendered Warwick American-style, the result would have been ludicrous. Happily, he has adopted all the confidence of the cynical Englishman looking down upon fifteenth century France. He is also an amusing, if unnecessary, intermediary between play and audience; through distinguished diction he fills this function well...
Harold W. Dodds, fifteenth president of Princeton University, recently revealed that he would definitely retire in June 1957, contrary to persistent rumors that he would retire at the end of the present academic year...
Question: Gaza, a Greek scholar of the fifteenth century said that if all the books of the world were on a ship fated to be wrecked and he could save only one author, Plutarch would be the one. Under similar circumstances which two or three books would you save...
...varsity sailing team enters a quadrangular meet at Babson today at 12:30 p.m., and tomorrow competes in the fifteenth New England Dinghy Championship Eliminations at Tufts...
...only about forty skeptical listeners on hand, but by the end of the program the room was very enthusiastically full. Such responsiveness is commonplace, though, at the Adams concerts. A concert of folk music in the fall, and a concert three weeks ago of music from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries were equally well received. The sponsors deserve credit for their broadminded presentation of music of all periods and genres...