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Word: 20th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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That effort, along with a 3-0 season-opening defeat of MIT, earned the booters a 20th-place spot in yesterday's national rankings...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Men Booters Conn-fused, 1-1 | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

...published a well-respected book early in his career, banked most of his tenure hopes on a three-volume study of the interplay between ideas about states' responsibilities and fiscal and spending problems that faced the United States, Britain and France during the second and third quarters of the 20th century...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: No Tenure for the Teacher | 9/23/1986 | See Source »

...HAVEN, Conn.--Former Columbia Law School Dean Benno C. Schmidt Jr. was inaugurated as Yale University's 20th president Saturday amid anti-apartheid demonstrations that delayed the ceremony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schmidt Installed | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...beginning of the 20th century was characterized by innovation in play and abundant enthusiasm...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: How to Strangle a Bulldog | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...soothing precinct of his mother's remembered body. What anxiety was to Giacometti or sexual rage to Picasso, nurture and shelter were to Moore. His commitment to sculpture as an act of hollowing, modeling and smoothing the "body" of a single mass ran counter to the pattern of 20th century sculpture, which was to construct from disparate parts a shape that did not need to be felt with the hands, one in which sight preceded touch. (Who ever wanted to stroke a Gonzalez or a David Smith?) His impulse to preserve the traditional values of carving and casting went back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Sentinels of Nurture; Henry Moore: 1898-1986 | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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