Word: 500th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growth is accelerating, its stock market is surging, and foreign capital is pouring across its borders at a record rate. Spanish businessmen are already looking ahead to an expected bonanza from the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona and a Seville world's fair that year to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus' first voyage to the Americas. The mood in Spain is distinctly bullish...
...College that bears John Harvard's name this week celebrates its 500th birthday, there would seem to be no reason for the present deans to revise any part of Dean Henry's formulation. Most freshmen still cruise through Cambridge on the four-year plan, and the University itself shows no signs of folding its camping modules. It would seem that Rosovsky, who later left Harvard to become commissioner of the Major Indoor Soccer League, hit at least two out of three nails on the head...
...500th officials, like their 350th ancestors, have had to defend them-selves against charges that their party is a mere fundraiser in the guise of a more sacred event. (The white males who ran Harvard in the late 20th century went to their graves denying the much-rumored connection between the surplus from the 350th and the subsequent development and deployment of the Harvard Space Shuttle, which proved invaluable when the College opened its Lunar Extension School...
...celebrate our 500th birthday, then, let's try not to get too caught up in the inherent self-congratulatory self-aggrandizement of the event. For with a little effort and a touch of care, we can make it so that there is even more to cheer at some far off, distant date, at another anniversary celebration...
Cornell won its 500th victory in the history of its football program by defeating Yale, 20-14, at the Yale Bowl Saturday...