Word: fifteen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lately, in sections of Philadelphia where Coughlinism is strong, Jewish synagogues and shops have been pasted with anti-Semitic stickers; windows of a Negro church have been smashed; a Protestant tolerance meeting was invaded by Coughlinites. A Commission of Fifteen sober churchmen, appointed by the Philadelphia Federation of Churches, investigated such occurrences, resulted in the League for Protestant Action. Philadelphians who thought that the League might be just another letterhead, we're-agin-it organization were speedily disabused when they saw who the commission's chairman was. He is one of Philadelphia's most vigorous parsons...
...Gentlemen, this examination will end promptly in twenty minutes." Pens scratch paper desperately. The Mem Hall clock tolls the death-knell,--twelve o'clock noon. Fifteen more minutes; then ten; then five. People are handing in their blue books, strolling out the door. Vag scrawls the last word in his blue book. Slowly he puts his pen away, closes his book, puts on his coat, drops his blue book in the box, and wanders out into the sunlight,--into freedom. All through...
...leaped fifteen stiles...
Floyd Stahl's baseball nine hit a new low for the season in almost every department of the game on Saturday afternoon and after two hours and fifteen minutes of listless play, the Tufts Jumbos carried off an unexpected 4 to 2 victory...
While the Memorial Day Exercises were taking place along the river-bank yesterday, a Harvard Junior was severely injured in a fracas with fifteen local rowdies who were stoning sun-bathers on the roof of Winthrop House...