Word: 79th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's swordsmen placed a dull seventh in overall team competition, yet dueled their way to a very respectable second spot in foils competition at the 79th Annual Intercollegiate Fencing Association tournament at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland this past weekend...
...glaucoma. Connected by phone with Norwegian radio, he broadcast a message, in broken German, saying he was extremely pleased and proud. He added that he hoped to come to Oslo to receive the medal and the $140,000 prize money at the ceremony to be held Dec. 10, the 79th anniversary of the death of Swedish Munitions Merchant Alfred Nobel...
...then there was the time that the Growler had his 79th birthday. The Growler was one of those dyed-in-the-wool ex-ballplayers from the Ty Cobb era who hadn't missed a Clinton home game in 60 years. When his birthday came around, the Clinton management presented him with a cake at home plate between the fourth and fifth innings...
Aided by a strong tailwind and throngs of encouraging spectators. Will Rodgers took command of the 79th running of the Boston Marathon at the Wellesley checkpoint and sped to a record-breaking victory yesterday, winning in the phenomenal time of 2 hours 9 minutes and 55 seconds...
...York's Chemical, the country's seventh biggest bank, paid the defunct Security National company, which had been the 79th largest, $40 million for its assets. Explaining the speedy takeover, Chemical Chairman Donald C. Flatten said that Comptroller Smith "wanted it done quickly." Added Flatten: "The public interest was involved...