Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle with No. 17 Pepperdine. However, the weather on the left coast proved to be more of a hindrance than a help, and the Crimson's performance suffered early in the trip. The journey closed on a positive note when the Crimson beat Pepperdine on the Waves' home court for the first time in 10 tries...
...work moved to the University of Chicago when the Manhattan Project consolidated its operations there, culminating in the assembly of the first full-scale pile, CP-1, on a doubles squash court under the stands of the university football field in late 1942. Built up in layers inside wooden framing, it took the shape of a doorknob the size of a two-car garage--a flattened graphite ellipsoid 25 ft. wide and 20 ft. high, weighing nearly 100 tons. Dec. 2 dawned to below-zero cold. That morning the State Department announced that 2 million Jews had perished in Europe...
...hugely popular in America and Europe among the "better sort" before Hitler gave it a bad name--which held that intelligence was mostly inherited and that people deficient in it should be discouraged from reproducing. The state sterilization that Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes notoriously endorsed in a 1927 Supreme Court decision (with the slogan "Three generations of imbeciles are enough") was done with an IQ score as justification...
...other people that led to the anti-IQ rebellion that broke out in the last third of the century. It was probably most intense in Britain, whose public schools at midcentury had adopted a particularly severe system of sorting by test at age 11. By 1971 the U.S. Supreme Court had banned the use of IQ tests in employment except in very rare cases...
...radio knobs. Yes, radio knobs. A new toolbar lets you set up direct links to your favorite Internet radio stations--a trick taken straight from broadcast.com The browser and radio are free (you can download them from www.microsoft.com) And sticking with the business practice that landed the company in court, Microsoft plans to sell a new edition of Windows 98 with IE 5.0 bundled...