Word: 15th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...survey that considered both the quality and cost of a school in order to determine its placement, Harvard ranked 15th overall and fifth in the Ivy League. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena placed first...
...Lions' first Ivy League game; 15th-ranked Columbia stands at 4-0-1 after a less-than-grueling "preseason" schedule against New York area competition...
...Crimson (4-3) went into the tournament not quite knowing what to expect. It had an impressive 3-1 record, but little experience against top-flight foes. The Navy tournament, featuring 11th-ranked Navy and 15th-ranked Bucknell, promised, to change that. It did, and the Crimson is happy with the results...
...genitalia. About 12 pages are given over to what is undoubtedly the most frequently used obscenity in the English tongue, the ever versatile F word. No other slang expression approaches it in its variety of permutation, application, hyphenation and intensification (e.g., unf -- -- -- ingbelievable). In its earliest recorded use (late 15th century), this word was possibly already taboo, says Lighter, who found it in a rhyming couplet written in cipher. The dictionary is rife with other synonyms for copulation; some are splendidly ingenious (for example, to have one's greens); most, however, are unprintable...
...next week at the Ivy League Tournament at the Bethpage Country Club, where the team finished a disappointing fifth out of eight squads. Radtke led the team with a 242 over 72 holes, good for an 11th-place finish, and Body was close behind with a 246, good for 15th. Shortly after, the team was threatened with catastrophe when Body sprained his back in a hockey games, but the team almost compensated for him. Although its second-place finish behind Boston College at the Greater Boston Championships was disappointing, it put in a solid performance at the best overall performance...