Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshman diving phenom Jennifer Goldberg, the only member of the four-member corps to qualify for the trip, chalked up enough points to finish 20th in the one-meter competition...
...beginning of the 20th century, Harvard University was a New England college for a New England elite," Cross said "Happily, we are beginning to see the growth and development in this area which should have taken place many years ago at Harvard," he added...
...right decision. Waugh, one of the great prose craftsmen of the 20th century, must have realized that his 14-year-old Charles was a faint carbon copy of his public school self. Ryder attends "Spierpoint" just after World War I; Waugh went to Lancing at the same time. Details and dialogue are loosely transplanted from the author's diaries. Like Waugh, young Ryder exhibits a monkish passion for drawing and illuminated texts. Unlike the grave, sentimental narrator of Brideshead, Charles the teen-ager can sound as curmudgeonly as his middle-aged maker: "I think the invention of movable type...
...Cambridge bidding commissioner, calling the facility a danger to public safety because of its lack of a sprinkler system, two weeks ago denied Middlesex Country a permit for the 150-inmate jail, which is located on the 17th though 20th floors of the Middlesex Country Courthouse...
...first orbit of the earth, the achievement overshadowed an orbital trip made three months earlier by a 37-lb., Cameroon-born colleague named Enos. One of Project Mercury's Astrochimps, Enos passed the remainder of his Government service in relative obscurity. During celebrations in Washington marking the 20th anniversary of Glenn's historic spaceflight, the Democratic Senator from Ohio was given a surprise party. Enos couldn't make it, but a standin, dressed in a monkey suit, did, saluting Glenn and Wife Anna with four stanzas of doggerel, sung to the tune of When Johnny Comes Marching...