Word: elinore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judy Rabinowitz and Elinor Apthorp placed fourth and sixth respectively while alpiner Karen Linsley pulled off what she termed "the shock of the weekend" with a 10th-place finish in the five-kilometer race...
Judy Rabinowitz captured third place in the cross-country, but the Cliffe's other habitual top-five finisher, Elinor Apthorp, missed the race because of tendonitis...
...Elinor, we would have won last weekend and they would have had to give the spot to us, but it's between Bates, Maine and us for the final spot," she said...
Publishing is by no means the only field in which American women have made significant contributions. Agriculture, for example, has profited immensely by women's innovations. Elinor Laurens of Ansonborough, South Carolina, became the first colonist to cultivate a wide variety of exotic fruits and vegetables-including olives, capers, limes, ginger, guinea grass and Alpine strawberries. The most exceptional female planter, however, is Mrs. Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 53, also of South Carolina. When only a girl, managing her absent father's large plantation with what one friend called "a fertile brain for scheming," Eliza decided to start cultivating...
...Other schools have professors who have never been in politics teaching political science. We want the person who has been a politician." Hence, faculty members-most of whom are part-time and untenured -tend to be well-known personalities in the metropolitan area. New York City Consumer Affairs Expert Elinor Guggenheimer teaches a course on the consumer and the marketplace; Village Voice Writer Nat Hentoff presides over a course in investigative reporting. Comedian Alan King, who got his start in New York clubs, has lectured on the origins of ethnic humor. Other New York personalities who have taught...