Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eighteenth minute, Captain Lionel Bryer had to go off with a pulled muscle and Joslin failed to make a 30-yard penalty kick a minute later. John Chalsty touched down the Crimson's third try as soon as the ball came back in play, Joslin's successful conversion making the half time score Harvard 13, Barbarians...
...zoologists are seeking to subvert a time-tested law of the universe. If there is any basis in their theory of "character displacement," it will mean that all existing philosphies will have to be rethought. Everyone knows that science determines the nature of the prevalent world view. In the eighteenth century Newton forced Alexander Pope to write in rhyming couplets, and in the nineteenth century Darwin caused the birth of Robber Barons and the death of Louis Agassiz. Now, once again (almost with the frequency of the Russians) science has changed its party line, leading one to suspect that...
...varsity's ace hurdler, came within a step or two of pulling a major upset in the annual Knights of Columbus Meet at the Boston Garden Saturday evening. Cohen placed third in the 45-yard high hurdles behind Harrison Dillard, the Male Athlete of the Year who won his eighteenth consecutive K. of C. race...
...look like a house which had slowly accumulated things rather than a museum. A Manet hangs by a Sargent; in the Chinese Loggia there is an early French French statute of a Madonna and Child; in the Raphael room, a bronze Roman bowl stands next to a Botticelli; and eighteenth century French bread cake lies near a magnificent self-portrait by Rembrandt; near several Whistler pastel is a collection of lace in a cabine which hides a hot air vent, in the Veronese room. "It is truly a human museum," says Carter...
Bermuda shorts and pedal pushers jauntily navigate what was once a grassy lane, called Tory Row, now Brattle Street. Tory Row in the seventeenth century was the home of many of Massachusetts' foremost leaders, members of the General Court and men of that ilk. In the eighteenth century, however, the grandsons of these leaders came to grief, for their vested interest in the Crown government estranged them from their more patriotic brothers...