Word: fifteen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...computer system, programmed to diversify the Houses by evenly distributing students according to field of concentration, rank group, high school background and master's preference, resulted in fewer than half of all freshmen receiving their first choice. Fifteen percent were denied all their top five choices...
...earlier on Saturday that the Crimson captured its most important win of the weekend over Yale, 8-1. The victory was particularly sweet because it gave Harvard the edge in a fifteen-game rivalry in which each team had been tied with seven wins each...
...Fifteen years ago, a court-ordered school desegregation plan tore apart the social fabric of Boston. Blacks bused to schools in white neighborhoods were threatened and even beaten, while many white politicians staked their political careers on attempts to reverse the progress towards racial integration in the schools. Boston city politics were defined by race...
Cage created each Norton lecture by choosing entries from each of the fifteen sections of the book. He then selected passages from the writings of Wittgenstien, Fuller, McLuhan, Thoreau, Emerson, L.C. Beckett's Neti Neti and sentences from major newspapers...
Whatever the scientific merits of the study, Wallerstein and co-author Sandra Blakeslee provide vivid portraits of just how devastating divorce can be for children. Deborah, for example, saw her parents split up when she was five, shortly after her father beat up her mother. Fifteen years later, she is a top student in college, but she has a habit of falling in love with "jerks." Deborah says her latest boyfriend really loves her: "I know he cares about me because he hits...