Word: fifteen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past near Niagara Falls and struck horror in the breasts of everyone sensitive enough to experience the shock of useless death. The circumstances of the present outrage are such as to awaken even more intense sympathy. The facts that the victim was accompanied by his family, was a full fifteen miles from the border, and possessed not a trace of alcohol in the car, all combine to awaken popular recognition of an affair, the barest facts of which are hideous...
Most spectacular of the air maneuvers was the Blue raid on the Red army supply base at Columbus. Fifteen giant bombing planes screened by 15 pursuit craft and preceded by 18 attack planes executed this theoretical destruction. In a 100-second diving assault the attack planes delivered an effective fire equal to an infantry division of 30,000 men supported by divisional artillery. The Red defense, surprised, was unable to down a single bomber. Later in the day, a combined Blue and Red air force thrice circled Cincinnati, theoretically dropped hundreds of bombs, wiped...
Activities will start at 1 o'clock and are to last through the evening. At 1 o'clock, delegates will register and present their credentials, and, fifteen minutes later, a meeting of the Council will be held. The Council is to be composed of students representing the countries which make up the Geneva Council. At first it was planned to include the United States, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey. However, it has been suggested that League procedure might be followed more closely and interesting situations might arise if these five countries the formally admitted in subsequent meetings. The Bolivia-Paraguay...
...financial condition of the Debating Council is admitted by its officials to be bad. One debate of the previous season brought the Council fifteen hundred dollars. A year later, after scores of other debates, some with paying audiences of five hundred dollars on the wrong side. The vote of the Council to establish a graduate advisory committee when coupled with the dubious financial status would indicate a self confession of the Council's inability successfully to run its own affairs...
...Fifteen years ago three men sat in a bookshop. They argued as to whether Lord Dunsany's play The Glittering Gate was easy to act. Finding a copy of it on a shelf, they made the simplest test. Robert Edmond Jones shaped scenery from wrapping paper. Philip Moeller and Edward Goodman gestured, intoned romantic lines. Helen Westley, who happened in, was audience. From this beginning came the Washington Square Players and eventually the Theatre Guild.* Starting officially in 1919, the Guildsmen planned two plays for their first season. They estimated they would need $2,000. They got $675-revenue...