Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only in this century, Brown said, did Catholic historians and theologians begin to examine the intentions of the 16th century reformers instead of looking simply at the consequences of their actions. They then came to see, he continued, that the schism the reformers caused came only because the Medleval Church was too corrupt to admit the truth in the reformers' charges...
...five Japanese had not competed yesterday, Hewlett's performance would have been practically identical to last year's, when he placed 16th. His 2:32:31 time yesterday was just ten seconds lower than last year's. Without the Japanese, the winner of the race would have been Vandendriessche, who also repeated his time of last year...
Altered Circumstances. The new road, whose name would be the Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Co., would be the greatest new corporation on the U.S. business scene since U.S. Steel was formed 64 years ago. Penn-Central would become the 16th largest U.S. corporation and the world's largest transportation company: It would include 19,475 miles of road stretching from Virginia to Canada and west to St. Louis; initially, at least, it would also have 109,000 employees and 182 subsidiaries that do everything from mining coal to making freight cars. Yet even the Justice Department, which alone...
Magnificent Deduction. Launching and outfitting any new museum involves prodigious effort. The old county museum was an attic for archaeology and science as well as art. "It was a historical anomaly," says Director Brown, "really a 16th century Wunderkammer, with everything but a unicorn's horn and an ostrich egg." Stutz Bearcats, dinosaur tails and mineral collections clamored for attention with the art works...
...Turkish Cypriots are hardly blameless. On occasion they advance their lines by digging new trenches, thus prompting the Greeks to retaliate with new earthworks of their own, bringing both sides dangerously close together. Last January, heavy rains caused the collapse of part of Nicosia's 16th century battlements, exposing a 150-ft. tunnel built inside the wall that would have given the Turkish Cypriots a commanding position for firing across the so-called Green Line that divides Turks from Greeks...