Word: 39th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Holiday has grown from $20 million in billings ten years ago to $245 million today, partly by telling consumers why computers will change their lives. "The politicians will take credit for it; the businessmen will take credit for it, but"--and here he points out the window of his 39th-floor office across the Charles River toward Harvard and M.I.T. --"the real key to it all is the universities...
Dylan Thomas lived 13 days past his 39th birthday and has been dead now for nearly 33 years. Yet the story of his spectacular rise and fall, recounted in several biographies, numerous memoirs and even a Broadway play that starred Alec Guinness, retains an eerie, timeless allure. Dylan's saga combines Orphic myth with cautionary tale. Depending on who does the reading, the hero was either an inspired, fragile bard who fell upon the thorns of life or an overpraised, cadging drunk who finally got what he had been asking for and deserved. Thomas' Collected Letters will fuel such disagreements...
...kitchen, and he threw me against the window, which cracked, but I didn't fall out. And my mother started screaming and pushed me to one side, and I started screaming, and my other sisters started screaming. It's always like that. When we lived on 39th Street, my brother put his finger in my eye. I had an operation...
Harvard's number-two runner Bill Pate finished 55 seconds behind Kent in 39th place...
Parker is seeded 39th in the competition--right behind Yale Coach Tony Johnson...