Word: langston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allowed only 179 hits in 254 innings and was edged out for the strikeout lead in the final week by Seattle's Mark Langston...
...Those kids were as bright as the kids I grew up with. It was purely an accident of birth that they were so far behind." Despite the fact that most of his fourth grade students were lacking in basic skills, Kozol began teaching them the poetry of Langston Hughes and Robert Frost...
...first, however, remains. Kuban's contention that they came down on their metatarsals "fundamentally reorganizes what we know about the foot anatomy of bipedal dinosaurs," says David Gillette, curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and organizer of the symposium. University of Texas Paleontologist Wann Langston is not so sure. Since Kuban is not an anatomy expert, Langston maintains, " the jury is still...
...roughly two-thirds and was holding at around 500. Student activities had been slashed to nothing. The newspaper was gone. The library--whose special collections hold not only the works of DuBois but those of celebrated Black Achievers William Dawson, Marcus Garvey, W.C. Handy, Charles S. Johnson, John Mercer Langston, Aaron Douglas, Langston Hughes--was stretched so thin that in the periodicals section you would be lucky to find a well-worn Ebony and a month-old newsmagazine that someone had snatched from a dentist's office...
...recalled the 1977 case of a Maryland graduate student who had developed Parkinson's symptoms after injecting himself with a home-brewed opiate. The student had been trying to produce MPPP, a substance similar to the pain-killer Demerol, but had accidentally created a related chemical called MPTP. Langston asked Stanford University Chemist Ian Irwin to test the samples for the drug. Sure enough, MPTP was there...