Word: 98th
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...takes a certain sort of grace to endure a never-ending parade of humiliations and if anyone has exhibited that grace, the fine folks of Yale certainly have. Thank you Yale, for demonstrating to the world the difference between the 98th and 99th percentile on standardized tests, and for proudly carrying the banner of inferiority all these years. Good luck tomorrow--there's no question you'll need...
...event unique to the class of 1998 was the"Kickoff at the Kong,"--a celebration at the HongKong, the popular Chinese restaurant in theSquare, on the 98th day before graduation--whichmarked the beginning of a long chain of events forthis year's seniors...
Previous Harvard professors ranked were molecular biologist James D. Watson at 49th place, paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson at 78th and psychologist B.F. Skinner at 98th...
...SEPT. 27, 1945, AS AN 18-YEAR-OLD member of the 98th Division, I was among many who made a beach landing close to the city of Wakayama, Japan. From there we were transported by rail to Osaka, where I began a year of Occupation duty. The propriety of the use of the atom bomb to bring about the surrender of the Japanese will be debated endlessly. But one thing is clear: we encountered no resistance as occupiers because the Japanese, a people of great discipline and national pride, responded to the dictates of their Emperor. Had the Emperor asked...
...land," he says. "You can't work against it." The big sky does not intimidate him; it entices him. Mathers is undaunted by solitude or the prospect of tiny clusters of civilization tied by the endless reaches of shortgrass in the 10 states between the Rockies and the 98th meridian. The Great Plains form one-fifth of the land mass of the lower 48 states -- and an even greater portion of the nation's legend and romance. Sitting Bull warred and wept on the plains. General George Custer wandered there with the Seventh Cavalry, his pack of greyhounds...