Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notion that his music's meaning could be made intelligible to Stalin, or to anyone else, was only a comforting illusion. Stalin, like all Russia's other tyrants, held an attitude toward the arts that was best summed up by a bureaucrat in a story by the 19th century satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin: "What I do not understand is dangerous for the state...
...near freezing day in Boston, Nick Deane, 35, sees his dream in jeopardy. Two years ago, for $265,000, the novice developer had bought an incomparable old factory building for conversion into 21 condominium apartments and several offices. The 19th century structure, designated a historical landmark because it has one of the oldest cast-iron facades in the Northeast, commands spectacular views of Boston. Every unit in the planned conversion was sold before Deane went to the bank for his building loan. With 10% up front from every investor in the building and all the cash he could pull together...
...precisely defined the ingredients necessary for a society to generate innovation. Historian Barbara Tuchman notes that the 12th and 13th centuries enjoyed "one of civilization's great bursts of development," with the introduction of the compass, the spinning wheel and the windmill. Mid-19th century Europe and the U.S. enjoyed similar explosions. But why? Perhaps necessity is indeed the mother of invention, and the demands of the current energy and environmental crises may yet revive the spirit of the Yankee tinkerer...
John Murphy came home not far behind, capturing third place, while teammates Buck Logan, Noel Scidmore, and Eric Schuler rounded out the Crimson scoring finishing ninth, 12th and 19th, respectively...
About the time McNulty was disappearing behind the hills, freshman Schuler started passing people right and left gaining the 19th position before he was through...