Word: foundedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But Bender has little interest with college towns, which are ultimately dismissed as the 99-pound-weaklings of urban America. The heart of the book, rather, is a discussion of the three major schools in New York--the elite Columbia (founded in 1754 as Kings College), the alternative New York...
Cyr could have tried to win the endorsement of the progressive Cambridge Civic Association, which dates to the mid-1940s. Like many CCA candidates, Cyr is definitely a young progressive. He is a strong supporter of rent control, which for years has been the main political issue in city politics...
Another school of thought holds that the game arose in the 10th century and was brought to America by one of the earliest people's explorers, Eric the Red, who is said to have founded a team named for himself in what is now Cincinnati. Other equally respected laptologists maintain...
Saudi Arabia's rulers follow Abdul-Wahhab, who founded an austere Sunni sect more than 200 years ago.
Edward Jones, a former bond trader, founded the brokerage in St. Louis in 1922 and ran the business like any big-city firm until after World War II. In 1948, son Ted joined his father and came up with the idea to seek business in the hinterlands. "There were a...