Word: 41st
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They came to the shore of Lake Quinsigamond to be a part of the circus--the 41st annual Eastern Sprints. Most were wealthy and preppy and sunburned. Most were excited about the races...
...Lake Quinsigamond in Worchester, Mass., an ominous voice will begin to count down over the loudspeakers to the six assembled freshman lightweight crews, "FIVE, FOUR, THREE,"--each number echoing several times over the surface of the water. When the starter gives the command "ROW", the finals of the 41st annual E.A.R.C Regatta--better known as the Eastern Sprints--will be under...
Seven years ago, on his 41st birthday, Philip Glass was driving a New York City taxicab. From the age of 17 he had worked as a hotel night clerk, an airport baggage loader, a crane operator in a steel mill, a furniture mover and a plumber, all the while pursuing his real vocation: composer. Glass, however, was not hoping to make a big score with a pop song or a Broadway show. Rather, he was that least salable commodity, a revolutionary avant- gardist...
...more vivid for its late start. Born in Le Havre in 1901, he followed his father's trade as a wine merchant and (apart from one desultory spell as an art student in his teens, and another in the 1930s) did not commit himself to painting until after his 41st birthday. Yet by the end of the war, and especially by 1947 -- when he exhibited his riotously funny and touching series of portraits of French intellectuals and writers -- Dubuffet's work was not only an object of public scandal but also an essential part of the imagery of postwar France...
...from ninth place, for instance, partly because it is "a genteel place to live." Atlanta, 1981's top city, fell to eleventh place, hurt by conditions at its zoo. Washington, second in 1981, slipped in rank to 15th, while the metropolitan Greensboro, N.C., area dived from third to 41st...