Word: 5th
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Since 1988 the Getty has been embroiled in a dispute over a 7-ft.-tall marble beauty: a magnificent early 5th century B.C. Greek statue of a goddess, perhaps Aphrodite. Italy claims it was furtively unearthed in 1979 from the archaeological dig at Morgantina, Sicily. Some experts doubt that Morgantina, a onetime Greek colony, was the specific origin, but Italy is convinced the statue came from somewhere under its soil...
...26th. The deadline for submitting materials for the First Round is Wednesday, December 18th at 1:00 pm. The Second Round of the Spring Recruiting program begins on Thursday, February 27, 1992 and ends Friday, March 13th. The deadline for submitting materials for the second round is Wednesday, February 5th at 1:00 PM. There is also a Late Spring Round of recruiting (March 16-19). This is not part of the formal recruiting process and will be explained in the Recruiting News beginning in January...
...site of the first large ground battle of the war. Six miles south of the Saudi border with Kuwait, the town had been abandoned two weeks earlier by residents who fled out of the range of Iraqi artillery fire. On Tuesday, Jan. 29, nine brigades of Iraq's 5th Mechanized Division -- regarded by the U.S. as one of Saddam's better units -- swept into Saudi Arabia. They entered along a stretch of border that began north of Khafji and ended at the town of Umm Hujul, 50 miles to the west. By the next night they had occupied the town...
...November 5th "Dim Wits" by David B. Rogers, featured a mostly tongueless individual saying "Ooopth." A better caption would have been "Oooph," as the "th" dipthong cannot be pronounced by a mostly tongueless person, regardless of how dimwitted he or she is. This is a shameful example of irresponsible journalism. Jesse D. Bolton...
...Crimson is the eighth team from its region in the national rankings this weeks, following Northeastern (ranked 5th), the University of Massachusetts (8th), Providence (10th), New Hampshire (11th), Boston University (13th), Springfield (16th), and the University of Connecticut (17th...