Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outline of events laid down in the Times article would do proud the tradition that page bears. For a reporter in Moscow, however, the events set down to print were a matter of history, facts that get lectured to college students--part of the long tradition of oppression in 20th-century Russia, of murder, of massacre, of terror...
Certain regions of the U.S. have always seemed to lure venturesome people more than others. At the beginning of the 20th century, many automotive pioneers came to Detroit. There they found a deep-waterport and a good railroad system that gave easy access to supplies of coal and iron and a convenient way to ship their new cars back to local markets. They also found a prosperous wagon-making industry with a pool of skilled craftsmen, as well as a bustling atmosphere that encouraged innovation and manufacturing...
...repeatedly makes clear, the fantasy of evolution from matter into spirit was shared by other Munich artists before 1914, most strikingly by Hermann Obrist, whose unbuilt project for a monument -figures ascending a spiral, hauled up on top by a winged angel - predicted the great unbuilt monument of the 20th century, Tallin's iron tower for the Third International in Russia...
TONY VISONE, one of the more consistent Harvard hockey players of late, tallied one assist in last Monday night's 6-5 Beanpot consolation loss to North-eastern. The single point was only minor consolation for the Crimson wing, who celebrated his 20th birthday on Monday. He had several good opportunities to give himself and his teammates an even bigger present--a birthday goal--but couldn't put the puck in the net... Harvard's fourth-place finish in this year's Beanpot marks the third straight year that the previous champion has dropped all the way to fourth...
...talks were lengthily and involved, centering primarily around the issue of price. By January 20th the French team, led by GDF general director Pierre Delepurte, felt it had made sufficient headway to move the final round of discussions to GDF headquarters in Paris. Two-days later, at 11 p.m., the deal was struck: for the next twenty-five years. France will receive--via a trans-European pipeline--eight million cubic meters of natural gas from the Soviet Union, in addition to the four billion it already buys. By 1990, one third of France's gas and five percent...