Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yardling Jody Dushay scored points for the Crimson placing fourth on the team and 20th overall while classmate Katie Toner was the seventh Crimson runner, placing 26th...
...ending 132 years of U.S. sailing supremacy. Americans were astonished when John Bertrand, an unknown naval engineer, steered his boat to victory. But those familiar with the Melbourne skipper were not surprised: Bertrand's great-grandfather had helped build Sir Thomas Lipton's towering boats for early 20th century America's Cup competitions. As Bertrand admits in Born to Win, he relied as much on gamesmanship as yachtsmanship. He called the boat's new forward-slanted keel his secret weapon, and only now confesses that the keel was a fake, intended only to unnerve the competition. He employed a sports...
...Homer and Shakespeare come to the New World. It was the American discovery of tragedy, and of modern death, proceeding from the jaunty, clumsy toy soldiering of First Bull Run to Sherman's scorched earth and Grant's trench slaughter, which were a moral preview of the 20th century...
...Century Plaza sits at the heart of Century City, in the show business capital of the world. The entire area was once a sprawling back lot belonging to 20th Century Fox; a large section of it remains the studio's home. On a clear day, by Los Angeles standards, the Hollywood Hills can be seen peeking through the smog to the north. A few blocks east, Century City becomes Beverly Hills, where many of the President's former film colleagues reside...
...calls into question its own flourish. He writes in a pastiche of Daniel Defoe's 18th century documentary style, a la Robinson Crusoe or A Journal of the Plague Year, but occasionally interrupts in his own voice to take over the narrative or to recast his themes in a 20th century perspective...