Word: browne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...education in Britannia. In her 1994 work, "The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession," Virginia Scott Jenkins relates how the lawn concept emerged in the 18th century, when the gardens at Versailles were designed to include a small lawn, called the "tapis vert" and the popularity of Lancelot Brown's landscape stylings in Britain ("a new, elite style characterized by a mixture of meadows, water and trees, with grazing animals and graceful curves") meant that the lawn look ascended to primacy in the status hierarchy of the elite. A boom in the popularity of field-based sports such...
...next topic, feminism in hip-hop, elicits a similar sort of discourse: "Now I've been tryin' to be polite and waiting my turn, but now I gotta stand up and speak my piece as an individual. Because that's all women like Foxy Brown and L'il Kim are trying to do, express themselves as individuals. And who are you to say they can't show all of themselves? You yourself have to take what you will from them and be responsible for your own self. All-in-one, you know what I'm talking about? [I didn...
Cornell's Danielle Brown had been leading the event going in to the final jump, and thought she had secured it by beating out Gyorffy's personal record by 20 centimeters...
With Harvard's final jump, Gyorffy not only won the event, but beat Brown's jump by 20 centimeters, topping her personal record by 40 centimeters with a distance...
...Princeton and Brown have been the dominant forces in the Ivy League for a long time," Taylor said. "Brown is a tough rival, but we stepped it up last weekend a lot. Actually, we did more than that. What we did last weekend was inspirational...