Word: fifteenths
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...work itself is actually several books in one. In many ways it is similar to Moby Dick. For it not only tells of Columbus's life and voyages; it intersperses this material with many chapters on ships and sailing at the end of the fifteenth century. These chapters are fully as fascinating as the narrative itself, and are easily understood by the most ignorant landlubber...
...graphic art collection features engravings woodcuts, and etchings of French, German, Dutch, and Italian artisans of the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Reproduction of fountains, friezes, and the Second Leaf of the Cologne Bible are among the ornamental designs...
...Monitor's correspondent in Russia, "where," he says, "the revolt against European civilization began and where it has proceeded to the greatest lengths." He was present at the fall of France which "resounded through the world like that of Rome in the fifth century and Constantinople in the fifteenth." The World's Iron Age is an attempt to trace the connection between these modern disasters...
...concluding remarks, Potter stated that he believed we were at the cross roads of the greatest crisis since the fifteenth century, and that we cannot possibly remain stationary...
...sped work on its Caribbean rampart, from Bermuda to British Guiana, the U.S. Navy was busy on further defenses to the Panama Canal. While the first U.S. draft of soldiers for the Lend-Lease base in Bermuda shoved off from Brooklyn, Rear Admiral Frank H. Sadler, commanding the Fifteenth (Canal Zone) Naval District, told newsmen of growing dumps of supplies and equipment at Balboa, the great naval base on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal...