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Word: hundredth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone whom he or she beget shall inherit this legacy and so be guaranteedadmission, even unto the hundredth generation," heconcluded...

Author: By Jason C. Tsomides, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seniors Advise, Entertain With Traditional Class Day Orations | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...came down, some within a whisper of her. Only the woman in the shocking orange tiger helmet, with the diamond stud glinting in her right ear, would say, "I knew it was only a matter of time before the spirits would come through." She won the race by one-hundredth of a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Hear Them Roar | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...result is one of the great statistical zingers of our age: every month, 4 quadrillion transistors are produced, more than half a million for every human on the planet. Intel's space-suited workers etch more than 7 million, in lines one four-hundredth the thickness of a human hair, on each of its thumbnail-size Pentium II chips, which sell for about $500 and can make 588 million calculations a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDREW GROVE: MAN OF THE YEAR | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...addition, Kiedel took third in the 500 freestyle, an event which Harvard swept. Junior Denis Sirrinhaus touched the wall a mere one hundredth of a second before sophomore Tim Martin could extend his hand...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Purdue Closely Topped M. Swimming, 152-146 | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...hoped, maybe expected, would overthrow Saddam Hussein. But the political discontent I saw then seems to have dissipated. Now, after enduring rigorous economic sanctions that have stripped away their wealth, the educated merchant class has settled into numb resignation. The dinar has been devalued to one five-hundredth of its previous value: a government official who earned a yearly salary of $50,000 now gets $100. Gone too is the zest for life, the unpretentious way with visitors, the jocularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAGHDAD BLUES | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

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