Word: fifteen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some among his hearers remembered his father, who died in 1933. Charles Lindbergh Sr., of Minnesota, was one of 56 Congressmen (50 in the House, six in the Senate) who voted against declaring war in 1917. Outwardly cold, privately devoted Father Lindbergh wrote on Feb. 4, 1917: "Charles is fifteen today. He does not allow me to forget that, but I would not have forgotten it anyway, for this is a serious time. The world has gone...
When her submarine-shy crew last week refused to sail the Greek freighter Thermoni home from Seattle, Wash., its captain received an odd request. Fifteen Polish, German and British seamen, stranded in Seattle since the outbreak of World War II, and spoiling to get home to join their armies, had agreed on a working armistice, wanted to man the Thermoni and head her for Europe. British Seaman Charles Home, whose father died fighting in World War I, hopefully suggested that, once in Liverpool, his German mates might be permitted to proceed unmolested...
...electing its new headmaster, Groton took a big step, for this famed, exclusive preparatory school has had the same headmaster for all its 55 years. Dr. Peabody, who will serve another year before Crocker takes over, knows that Groton's future is in the hands of no stranger. Fifteen members of the Crocker family went to Groton, and Jack Crocker is an exemplary old Groton boy. He went to Harvard, where he played a bang-up end, then went to Oxford for two years. Afterward he taught at Andover, studied at the Yale and Episcopal Theological Schools, was ordained...
...long parade of Harvard alumni to the Stadium, led by the twenty-fifth reunion class, will start at 1:30 p.m. Most of the representatives of the fifty classes which have made plans for reunions in Class Day week will be in this parade, the classes which are twenty, fifteen, ten, six, and three years out of college customarily wearing the unique costumes which they have adopted...
...have men of distinction within your ranks, ten or fifteen who have risen high. You have a right to be proud of them. But you have a better right to be proud of the larger body of your class who, without any claim to fame or fortune, have faced and fought through two of the greatest national crises in America's history. Those men, dragged from their first jobs into a mass murder three thousand miles away, brought back to meet a hysterical nation who thought its future was its bankroll, forced to sit helplessly by and watch their financial...