Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...preseason poll, Purdue was anked 19th and we were 18th," said unior Greg Wriede. "Every team singles out a particular meet for their big rest meet and this was their's. It made all the difference in the world...
...19th century, Harvard Yard was not a tourist attraction. John Harvard was sitting alone, halfway across campus, and in his place the Yard was dotted with outdoor substitutes for indoor plumbing...
...Tricorn hat and cloak silently come down the stairs and go out the door; another report describes the sounds of a phantom dinner party that filled the corridor by the southwest corner of University Hall, a displaced echo of the dining hall that occupied the building in the 19th century; and some remember hearing Bill Gannon, former sexton of Christ Church, claim that a British soldier who was thrown from a wagon while passing in front of the church occassionally rises from his grave in the basement and prowls between the pews of the church...
...hard to do up here and we have been trying a long time," said Taylor, who is in his 19th season behind the Yale bench. "I told the kids before the third period that 'there are 15 generations of hockey players that would die to be where you are right now with a chance to win.' It had a lot of meaning...
When Central and Eastern European Jews arrived in the late 19th century, speaking no English, possessing a very different culture, and faced with widespread anti-Semitism, they succeeded nonetheless, representing, within one or two generations, a disproportionate percentage of America's professional and cultural elite. Indians and Pakistanis have also done remarkably well in America...