Word: nineteenth
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...YORK, Nov. 18--Pete Reider set a fast early pace, but fell back and finished nineteenth in this afternoon's IC4A cross country championships. Reider, who led the field at the half-mile mark with a fast 2:15 clocking, was passed at the first hill and never again contended for the lead. Still, his 25:26 time placed him first for the Crimson and third among Ivy League runners in the five-mile race...
...typical qualities mark the third volume of Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples (there is a final volume on The Nineteenth Century yet to come). One quality is control; Churchill manages to grasp a huge and chaotic period (1688-1815) without ever letting a war, a revolution or a leading character get out of hand in the plot. The other quality is a kind of historical cosmopolitanism scarcely to be found in any other writer; Churchill ranges from English county politics to American economic discontents to the last stirrings of the Holy Roman Empire to French...
...greatest novelist, the greatest poet, and the greatest play-wright of this century, Joyce, Yeats, and Shaw all came from Dublin. This is a city located in a country with definite national and Roman Catholic values, a country in conflict with a larger culture claiming superiority, England. The Nineteenth Century Russia of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Turgenev in which the whole upper class become aware and submitted to the cultural superiority of Western Europe, especially that of France, is another European example...
...largest single exam numerically, with 105 students taking it, will be in History S-134c, Intellectual History of Nineteenth Century Europe, taught by Professor Hans Kohn. While one of the smallest, according to Leonard's figures, is Biophysics S-201 with a lone student scheduled to appear...
Hans Kohn, professor of History at CCNY, again teaches the two largest courses, History S-134c, Intellectual History of Nineteenth Century Continental Europe, and Government s-178, The World in the Twentieth Century: A Survey of International Relations...