Word: fifteenths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...digging up roots and making the first steps in a highly complex art with improvised tools. When the halcyon summer days were over, the Association moved to New York, took on a Canadian member to become "International," and faced the sterner realitics of city living. A large studio on Fifteenth Street was rented, power polishing tools were purchased, and a professional wood finisher (whose services were often in demand by piano companies) was called in to deliver advanced lectures on waxes at the Association's weekly meetings. Since that enthusiastic winter the Association has become more respectable and less energetic...
...late for game, and when this happens, they are usually faced with the prospect of playing one man short. At Princeton last fall just such a prospect was looming on the horizon, with 14 men on the field at kick-off time. All was not lost, however, as the fifteenth man arrived and changed in midfield, protected by a huddle of his teammates...
...start it going, the U.S. would earmark between $2 and $3 billion a year (about one-fifteenth of its arms budget) for the next five years, to provide an investment fund for underdeveloped nations. Britain and other industrial nations would be asked to supply additional billions; private investors, most of them American, would be encouraged to add to the kitty. Loans from this giant fund would be made available to the have-not nations without military or political strings, but each borrower would be expected to concentrate on those industries for which climate and resources best fitted it: there would...
...wide variety of voters. Some of the severest cuts in his majority came in the heavily Jewish Fifth Assembly District of Manhattan, the heart of his own congressional bailiwick, where Junior ran 5,000 votes behind Harriman, and Javits ran 5,000 ahead of Ives In Manhattan's Fifteenth Assembly District, another heavily Jewish area, which is the heart of Javits' congressional district, Roosevelt ran 8,800 votes behind Harriman, and Javits ran 8,700 ahead of Ives...
...make two years of college training a pre-requisie for admission. The other units, the School of Business Administration, the Law School, the Medical College, and the small School of Nutrition are regular graduate schools, except that qualified Cornell undergraduates can enter them after three years of study. A fifteenth division of the University, the school of Education, has no full-time students of its own, but serves chiefly to guide prospective teachers in specialized fields in arranging their programs...