Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...international community shuddered at the thought of where this path would end. Bill Clinton was dismayed. In just 17 days the Asian subcontinent had suddenly repeated, as he darkly put it, "the worst mistakes of the 20th century." Now would the Indian and Pakistani explosions, as some optimists suggest, bring a kind of fearful stability to the region? Could the two countries settle back into a state of mutual assured destruction (MAD), like the one that kept the superpowers from nuclear holocaust during the cold...
Miller's main intellectual pursuit was the study of 20th-century American culture, art and literature. Among numerous teaching positions, she was an art history professor at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and a historian at the National Portrait Gallery...
...athletic contests go, only the Harvard-Yale Game comes close to creating the bond between such a diverse student body as the women's basketball team's accomplishment did. But not since the early part of the 20th century when the gridders could still vie for a national title has The Game approached the significance of The Upset...
...Class of 1948 Symposium focused on the issues of the 20th Century...
From the safe haven of the ivy tower we will scatter widely, both geographically and professionally. Some of us may not last through the end of the 20th century. Others may make it through the 21st century and into the 22nd century. If this happens, and life becomes even longer, it may be due to one of our own's findings. That would leave the rest of us to report on the finding, critique it, buy stock in it and design policy around it. A few of us would ignore it completely. All of this would happen in Bilbao, Chicago...