Word: 20th
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While many actors go to New York undertrained and short on contacts, Tucker McCrady has the closest thing to a ticket to success. He is a member of Julliard's 20th dramatic arts class. To gain admission, he competed against more than 600 people for one of the 20 openings. At the prestigious school he will receive voice, movement, dance, and acting lessons among others...
When the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) this year appointed a new director, they chose a scholar of the 10th century in what some scholars describe as an attempt to escape the ethical dilemmas of the 20th century...
Derek C. Bok, who is in the sixteenth year of his presidency, has not had to wait so long as Eliot, who is famous for leading Harvard into the 20th century. Bok, a 57 year-old former Law School Dean, has been at the helm of Harvard as it has adjusted to the complicated, modern age of universities. In the last decade and a half, Bok has maintained a firm consensus which has allowed the University to rapidly expand as its endowment soared from $725 million to nearly $4 billion...
...force. In just six days of fighting, Israel occupied 2,270 sq. mi. of land on the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as the Golan Heights and the finger of Mediterranean seacoast known as the Gaza Strip. Last week, as Israelis prepared to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Six-Day War, they seemed as determined as ever to hold on to the West Bank...
Isolated and exposed on the open seas, surface fleets in the 20th century have proved increasingly vulnerable to a succession of ever more sophisticated attacks from the air. In 1921, Army Air Service General Billy Mitchell demonstrated that rudimentary aerial bombardment could scuttle the most heavily armed warships, a lesson Japan put to good use when it nearly destroyed the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. Carriers that could launch swarms of fighter planes became the dominant sea weapon in World War II. Although the Reagan Administration has committed the U.S. to a 600-ship Navy with 15 carriers, some strategists...