Word: 19th
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This hefty, meticulous report on the authors meanderings and experiences in Spain is, he says, "a 19th century English-style travel book." Happily, it is that and much more. It is an unabashed celebration of an old infatuation with a country, and thus has the engaging, slightly breathless quality that is rarely found in modern travel books, now that the world has grown small...
Last year, the Kenyon student continued, Harrison's team was 25-3 and often packed as many as 2000 fans into the 1800-seat gymnasium. Harrison advocates a fast-break offense: his most recent team scored more than 100 points 11 times, averaging 98.6 points per game. Kenyon ranked 19th among the nation's small colleges last year...
...with some military men urging that the bombing be resumed throughout the North. But many top Navy and Air Force officials, in particular, felt that the U.S. was destroying more enemy supplies by concentrating its bombing on supply routes from the Demilitarized Zone at the 17th parallel to the 19th parallel rather than by trying to bombard the entire North. Indeed, the U.S. flew nearly 700 more missions in April over the 21% of North Viet Nam's territory that is not yet proscribed than it did in March, when most of the country was fair game...
...Massachusetts legislature was persuaded to convert the Springfield Technical Institute, a vocational school, into a state-run operation. The institute acquired instant academe by moving its facilities to some of the armory's 19th century buildings. The campus now includes parade grounds and handsome fences wrought from melted cannon poured into an artistic motif of pikes and halberds...
...19th is a big rolling par four, a tough driving hole, with water off the tee and on the right, and a double-tiered green. Like most of the other holes on the Yale course, it was in remarkably poor condition...