Word: 115th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...115th meeting of horse racing's venerable summer camp at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., opened earlier this month as regular fans returned to their favorite spa. Once again hotels and restaurants are jammed with people who seem to have leaped straight out of New Yorker cartoons, and the jewel thieves who shadow the wealthy have put in their usual appearance. It would seem that nothing could disturb these genteel August rites...
Canadians marked their country's 115th birthday last week with picnics, parades and a dazzling display of fireworks over Ottawa's Parliament Hill. But the celebration hardly reflected the times; Canada faces its worst economic slump since the 1930s. Unemployment stands at a post-Depression high of 10.2%, inflation is galloping along at 11.8%, and the prime rate is stuck at a crippling 18.25%. In an effort to check the growing sense of alarm, Finance Minister Allan MacEachen unveiled a new budget, his third in less than 18 months. But as Canadians studied his belt-tightening measures...
April snow showers, coating nearly every ballfield in New England, three times delayed the 115th Harvard baseball opener. When the Crimson nine finally took their places at Soldiers, held Wednesday afternoon, the sun was shining, the field was dry, but a strong wind blew across the open a tea Only the dedicated braved their way to the doubleheader: with Northeastern, and by the start of the second game, fewer than 20 fans--most of whom were other Harvard students--sat in the rather modest first baseline stands...
...Crimson shattered the downstream mark by 59 seconds over the grueling four-mile course and gained the unofficial national championship. Harvard stormed the finish line in 18:22.4 while Yale pulled in at 18:30.8 in the 115th renewal of the oldest intercollegiate sporting event on the Thames in New London, Conn. Parker Promptly took off for Europe to coach the U.S. National squad...
...Harvard men's soccer team traveled Wednesday to Haverford to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the nation's first inter-collegiate soccer match. In June, the men's heavyweight crew defeated Yale in the 115th renewal of the oldest intercollegiate athletic competition. Some time in November, the University will reach the not-so-tender age of 345. Ah, to be old--and first; two honored Harvard traditions...