Word: ninth
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...team was disappointed with its performance, despite sophomore Ian Carswell's first-place finish. He completed the hilly five-mile course with a time of 25:40. Brian Walsh was Harvard's second-best runner with a time of 26:18, which placed him ninth overall...
Chemistry Head Tutor James E. Davis said he encourages students in Chemistry 5, which came in ninth, to take advantage of the teaching fellows and sections, which can make their classes seem smaller. "The teaching fellow is an ally to the student," he said...
...ninth floor, where Judge Lance Ito presides, is a fortress. A visitor must pass through two metal detectors and by a dozen guards to get there. A glass wall separating the courtrooms from the elevator landing is made of bullet proof glass, a guard a guard says...
Buried within Gail Godwin's ninth novel, The Good Husband (Ballantine; 468 pages; $22.95), is a wry and potentially wicked marital and academic farce. Imagine two imperious egotists -- one, Magda Danvers, a scholar of "visionary" literature, and the other, Hugo Henry, a successful novelist -- cooped up together at a small, liberally endowed college in the Catskills. Give them both passive spouses. Magda has Francis, 12 years her junior, whom she calls "dummy" and other affectionate epithets. Hugo has Alice, who was once his editor and is now nurse to his formidable self-regard. Surely these worms will eventually turn...
Haitink's finale constituted nothing less than a triumph. The "alpenhorn" theme flowed majestically through the Shed and Lawn, as did the brass chorale that follows it. Haitink's initial reading of the main theme (the one derived from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony) seemed last at first. The tempo, however, reaped its reward in the development, instead of the usual disconnected and episodic character of that section. Haitink's interpretation was brisk and lively. He could only be faulted for his treatment of the piece's climax--the return of the chorale--which he sprinted through with inappropriate disinterest...