Word: germans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the Harvard and Princeton Glee Club concert this weekend, the guys with the orange bow ties sang a lovely Franz Schubert hymn in German, which stirred fond memories of my family's trip to Germany this summer...
...because they won't make it there if they're anything less. As befits a man of his timbre, Christoph boasted a heady admiration for America's paragon of manliness, the Old West cowboy. We were chatting about Westerns and cowboys one day in broken English--my German goes no further than "bier" and "bratwurst"--when he told me of his son's "cowboy coloring book." I was encouraged, to say the least, that America had given this exemplar of the strenuous life an untainted character worthy of his children's admiration (I never saw his son without...
...Harvard heavyweight crew team faced an uphill battle yesterday, facing a field that included the U.S and German national teams...
Until the 1970s, though, it was unclear how the proteins knew where to go. Guenter Blobel, a German-born cell and molecular biologist at New York City's Rockefeller University, figured it out--and for solving that mystery, the 63-year-old naturalized American last week won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Medicine...
...think it's a great thing. A great thing. Because that enables the international crews. This year you're going to have the top six men's scullers and the top women's single scullers from the world competing. That's awesome! You're going to have the Germans here, you have the German Youth National Team coming here rowing out of Harvard. It's going to be remarkable, so in that regard, sure, bring it on. And if it gets people's names in the press and people come down and take a look...