Word: 500th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sing with a sublime sweetness that was thought to rival the song of angels. Although we do not hear too much about the castrati today, boy choirs have retained their popularity. Last Friday, the Vienna Choir Boys, as witness to this popularity, came to Symphony Hall to celebrate their 500th anniversary...
...City Council of Berkeley, California changed the city's annual Columbus Day holiday to a "Day of Solidarity with Indigenous People," in 1992, the 500th anniversary of Columbus' landing in the New World...
However, for a team that went winless in non-league play last year, any win over any team (no matter how pathetic) is worth something. The triumph was also Harvard's 500th all-time win, and the margin of victory was the team's largest since an 8-0 shellacking of Brandeis...
...constituent, Mr. Smith (obviously not his real name), had written a letter complaining about the Clinton budget proposal, lamenting the heavy tax burden he expected to bear. It was literally about the 500th letter we had received that week on the subject, and I hauled out the usual assemblage of tired platitudes and empty euphemisms, like "this is the time for all of us as Americans to pull together in the face of adversity...
...society doesn't make a big deal out of major anniversaries. This year much attention, politically correct and politically incorrect alike, has been given to the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World. A little over a year ago, a dramatic ceremony commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. For God's sake, it wasn't too long ago that there was a gala ceremony to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spam...