Word: 18th
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...London offices that we now inhabit look out on Somerset House, a masterpiece of 18th century design. The art treasures of the Courtauld Institute lie within its ornamented corridors, and its well-proportioned courtyards house handsome offices, restaurants and shops. Canaletto, along with other artistic admirers, painted a view of its sweeping façade along the Thames. When we look across the river at newer, uglier office blocks, we realize Somerset House represents a kind of perfection that succeeding generations did not - could not - improve upon...
...that is precisely what's happening. A decade ago, the idea that the planet was warming up as a result of human activity was largely theoretical. We knew that since the Industrial Revolution began in the 18th century, factories and power plants and automobiles and farms have been loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping gases, including carbon dioxide and methane. But evidence that the climate was actually getting hotter was still murky...
Freshman Rassan Grant represented Harvard in the breaststroke events, tying with senior Bryson Tan of Eastern Michigan to place 18th in the 100 breast-both swimmers clocked 54.91. Grant, who holds both the 100- and 200- breaststroke school records, placed 31st...
...picnic for a traveler then) in 1865. Clearly he was much taken by the Spanish still-life painter Sanchez Cotan, and by the tradition of the vanitas--images of objects gathered together to symbolize the transience of pleasure and earthly life. And then, particularly, there was Chardin, the 18th century French master of still life, whose benign and composed presence is palpable in Manets like the Bunch of Asparagus, 1880, with its almost miraculous rendering of the blue tips of the asparagus spears. (It sold, fresh off the easel, to a collector named Charles Ephrussi. Manet felt he had been...
Then, in the 18th minute, things began to unravel for the Crimson. O'Shaughnessy's first goal at 17:11 knotted the game at 1-1 and was followed by a tally from sophomore defender Jen Berarducci twenty seconds later. The two scores gave the Fighting Irish a lead they would not relinquish for the remainder of the game...