Word: fifteen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...organ to fight propaganda with propaganda, Dry with Wet. Freedom is the new organ's name, a monthly published in Manhattan by the so-called National Committee for the Repeal of the 18th Amendment,* "for Constitutional Government, repeal of the prohibition laws and restoration of the Bill of Rights." Fifteen thousand copies of the first issue were printed and circulated last week. It was mostly free circulation, but subscriptions were solicited...
...There would seem to be every reason to believe that now that the [U. S.] fifteen-cruiser bill has become effective [TIME, Feb. 18] a further effort will be made before long to reach an agreement between the principal naval powers of the world for the limitation of naval armaments. As long as that bill was under discussion any proposal to renew conversations on this vital subject might have been interpreted in the U. S. as an attempt to interfere with the passage of the bill...
...find a lodging to suit his taste and his purse. He takes no interest in his room because he feels that he will presently leave it. He is an irresponsible boarder as far as the dormitory is concerned. A certain portion of the students, perhaps ten or fifteen per cent., are members of small social clubs...
...Fifteen rounds having been fought (TIME, Jan. 28 et seq.); the fight to a finish between John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and Col. Robert Wright Stewart, minority stockholder and board-chairman, respectively, of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, continued last week as follows...
...selected to participate in these contests were chosen from a group of about fifteen students who reported for the trials. Each team, however, will consist of only two men; and consequently two of these candidates will be appointed alternates. Active preparation for the debates will start today...