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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paul Simon, the Democratic Senator from Illinois, lost a bet and, as payment, replaced his standard bow tie with a neck...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The News Of the Weird | 2/8/1992 | See Source »

Afro-American Studies Department Chair HenryLouis Gates Jr. and Head Teaching Fellow John S.Wilson wore jackets and ties to the lecture. Deanof Students Archie C. Epps III, seated on stagewith Glass, Wilson and Lee, wore a jacket and hisusual bow tie. Lee dressed down for the occasion...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prof. Spike Lee Arrives for First Class | 2/1/1992 | See Source »

...Approaches to Quantifying Morbidity: The Experience of the WHO Tropical Disease Research Program--with Burton Singer of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University. At the Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 12/12/1991 | See Source »

...good!" the watching Fuchida said to himself as he saw the slow-moving Nevada. At his signal, all available bombers attacked in an effort to sink it and block the channel to the sea. Bombs ignited huge fires in the ship's bow. It escaped total destruction only by deliberately running aground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...antiaircraft guns were firing, when the Hiryu's dive bombers and torpedo bombers struck. As the Yorktown's guns demolished one attacking bomber, its bomb exploded with a huge orange flash behind the carrier's bridge. Then another two bombs penetrated deep below decks, and the carrier's whole bow went up in flames. The Yorktown was doomed (though 2,270 men -- nearly all the crew -- were rescued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down but Not Out | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

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