Word: 90th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rommel was trying to keep the nucleus of an army intact, trying to hold together what was left of his once superb 15th and 21st Armored and 90th Light Motorized Divisions. Somewhere, perhaps at Matrûh, perhaps at Hellfire Pass, he might be able to make a stand. But faster than Rommel's flight was the R.A.F...
...Lord President of the Court of Session (the Scottish Supreme Court), a Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords. Besides, he claimed to have been the first Cambridge undergraduate to ride a bicycle, was an expert tennist, cricketer and fencer, remarried at 73, and celebrated his 90th birthday by throwing a cocktail party...
...important people were there, but nothing happened as it was supposed to. It was the 90th anniversary of the signing of Argentina's articles of confederation, and Buenos Aires' Governor Rodolfo Moreno, who dearly loves a spectacle, had invited Acting President Ramón S. Castillo, all provincial governors and many another bigwig to re-enact the ceremony. To the tiny town of San Nicolás de los Arroyos traveled the presidential train, complete with what Buenos Aires correspondents nicknamed "the candidates' coach." Aspirants in next year's presidential elections, including longtime Foreign Minister Carlos...
...yearly at the School of Agriculture at Cambridge, England. The egg-ripening hormone was discovered by Drs. Philip E. Smith and Earl T. Engle of Columbia. It was impossible to obtain it in useful quantities until it was discovered abundantly in the blood of mares in their 40th to 90th days of pregnancy...
...mind had a larger quality. There is nothing like battle to mature the mind it does not destroy. The bullet that passed through Holmes's neck at Antietam lodged in his brain. He lived the rest of his life as if the words with which he closed his 90th birthday address were momently true: "Death plucks my ear and says Live-I am coming." He lived with the wise irreverence of a soldier who has seen the end of the story too often and knows that its only novelty is in its surprise. This vast tolerance was really neither...