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Word: 90th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Petri said that she scored in the 90th percentile and above on all four parts of the medical aptitude test (MCAT) and that a letter from her doctor accompanied her med school applications...

Author: By Clark Mason, | Title: Alumna Says Ostomy Surgery Biased Some Medical Schools | 5/6/1976 | See Source »

...write. She, of course, is the crippled Laura of The Glass Menagerie. But his mother, whom he calls "Miss Edwina," has been the love-hate pivot of his life. Quite apart from supplying the model for the memorable Amanda Wingfield in Menagerie, this formidable lady, now in her 90th year, stamped certain irreversible traits on Tennessee's attitudes, character and dramatic style. Valiant in coping with her stingy shoe-salesman husband Cornelius' early desertion of the family, self-willed and prone to fits of delusive grandeur as a Southern gentlewoman, Miss Edwina is the greatest single influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Sin and Grace | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...movie retirement between them, Cowboy Stars Roy Rogers, 63, and Joel MeCrea, 69, will be riding the range once again this summer in feature-length films. Rogers, who left movies 21 years ago and now runs an Apple Valley, Calif., museum, will star in Mackintosh and T.J., his 90th picture. "There's no leading lady, no shooting, some fights, but no blood spurting, and that's the way I wanted it," he says. MeCrea, who left 13 years of retirement on his two California ranches, will return to movies in Mustang Country, an adventure set on the Montana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 12, 1975 | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

Perhaps Holmes best summarized his life when he quoted a line from a Latin poet on his 90th birthday...

Author: By Michael L. Silk, | Title: Doing Justice to Justice Holmes | 3/12/1975 | See Source »

...YORKER magazine will celebrate the 90th anniversary of its founding this month, and the occasion will be suitably honored by Brendan Gill's amiable in-house chronicle. Here At The New Yorker. Gill has been there during most of the magazine's lifetime, having been taken on as a staff writer straight from Yale in the late 30's and has enjoyed the company and the friendship of many of the literary figures that history and their New York Times obituaries will inevitably associate with the magazine...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Gossamer Good Times | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

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