Word: fifteen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through the main streets to a telegraph pole. A rope jerked Ratliff off the ground, broke, let him down with a thump. Under the code of the Old West, when a lynching rope broke, the victim was freed. Eastland that night did not follow the Old West's code. Fifteen terrible minutes passed before a new grass rope was produced. Up went Ratliff a second time...
...lists fifteen forms of gorillas currently recognized in nomenclature and takes them up in their chronological order. Many of these he finds to be isolated examples not substantiated by sufficient evidence, based, in some instances, on not more than one speci- men. These he lists as extreme variants of a type. Some of these genera are differentiated by such characteristics as length of hair and length of beard which do not seem to him fundamental because specimens from the same limited regions present such wide variation in these respects...
...occupancy about Christmas time. Construction on the $2,000,000 laboratory and clinic adjoining it on the hospital grounds has been started. Plans for the Institute of Human Relations building, to cost $2,000,000 have been completed, and it is hoped the building will be ready in about fifteen months. Among the unique architectural features of the Institute, which is to be a center for research in biology and sociology at Yale, are a residential unit for the study of child development, a residential and treatment unit for the study of mental efficiency and mental diseases, modern laboratories...
...Fifteen brass bands preceded Sir William down the Strand. Between the bands lurched and rumbled dozens of gorgeous, ingenious, expensive floats. One series showed the progress of printing from the Gutenberg Bible to the daily tabloid, with Father Time seen at last frantically pecking the keys of a linotype machine...
...World. It is undeniable that the chief republic of North America has solved, with reasonable success, the problem of reconciling vast areas and immense populations with a comparatively simple and understandable federal system. It is equally undeniable that since the fall of the Roman Empire nearly fifteen centuries ago the rich Continent of Europe, including the fountains of Western culture and Western government, has been broken up into warring units. Likewise, it is true that the so-called Holy Roman Empire in North Central Europe reconciled some of the Jealousies and hostilities of a group of countries for nearly...