Word: fifteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been his muse). But where other note-makers have nailed their colors to the mast and let their hair down to the last soiled lovelock, urbane Maugham has preferred to soak his colors in bleach and pin his hair in a tight bun. His Notebook (the whittlings-down of "fifteen stoutish volumes") contains mostly workaday jottings from 1892 (when he had just started to write) to 1949 (when he suggests that he is just about to stop). "I publish it," he explains, "because I am interested in the ... process of creation ... By some happy chance what interests me seems...
Radcliffe's Athletic Association handed out awards yesterday to 26 members for excelling in field hockey, lacrosse, and softball. Fifteen Radcliffe letters were distributed for top ranking in skill at the individual sports...
Army jumped off fast. After the Crimson had taken the kickoff and pushed from its own 26 to the Army 38, defensive center Lynn Galloway intercepted a pass and the Cadets were started. Fifteen plays later Gil Stephenson, playing his first full game of the season, bucked over from the four-yard line. The big gains in this drive came on two passes by Arnold Galiffa, to Dan Foldberg and Jim Cain, and a 13-yard run by Karl Kuckhahn...
...psychological" edge that Harvard might have had disappeared on the following kickoff, as Jim Noonan fumbled the kick on his own fifteen. Army leaped happily on the ball--this was the first of four Crimson fumbles that the Cadets grabbed--and scored as Frank Fischl cracked to the three and Stephenson again pushed over through tackle...
This incident, according to Samuel Eliot Morison '07, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History who spoke last night on "The History of Harvard," happened during the first year of Harvard's 312 year existence, and not many years later "a fifteen hole" outhouse was constructed on the location of the present University Hall...