Word: 16th
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...NOTEBOOK: Harvard has now been shut out nine times this season...Both the Crimson and the Tigers took three corner kicks Saturday. . . Harvard was ranked 16th in the latest national poll, Princeton 18th...
This mammoth chronicle is Michener's longest yet, and like so many of those before it, contains perfunctory characterization, arid prose and an authentic gift for conveying the mighty sweep of history. This time the locus is the Lone Star State. Michener begins his tale in the early 16th century, when Tejas was unexplored Mexican wasteland. In the kilopage fictification that follows, events and personalities pass in review: the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, Comanche raids, cattle drives, oil, religion, high school football, superpatriotism and real estate dodges. Much of this is fascinating, but it is propelled...
Massachusetts is the 16th state in the country to institute such...
...Harvard heavyweight eight, which won the Henley Regatta in July, placed 14th and 16th in the championship eights. The Crimson split its best rowers into two boats and never challenged the Canadian Olympic Team (racing as the Ridley Grads) which won the event...
...controversy all springs from the 16th century loss of Columbus' original voyage journal. Historians now must rely on an abridged third-hand version containing numerous inconsistencies, according to Arne B. Molander, author of one of the essays...