Word: ninth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Heller will be ninth in a line of rabbis that stretches back to the famous early 17th century Mishnah commentator Yom-Tov Lippman Heller. After first setting hands on a computer in second grade, however, Heller always assumed he'd be a mathematician or do something with computers. By fifth grade, he was proficient enough that an older student paid him to hack into a strip poker software program...
...into the spring campaign Harvard had proved it could complete successfully on a regional and national level. The Crimson won the fall ECAC Team Championships, soundly defeating four rivals en route to the title, and raised more than a few eyebrows when it defeated fifteenth-ranked Texas Christian and ninth-ranked Louisiana State at the national indoor championships this spring...
While attending the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., from ninth through 12th grade as a boarder, Hajek excelled in field hockey--for which Harvard recruited...
...team marched into the Heptagonals at Columbia and got trounced, finishing a distant ninth behind first-place Brown and five other teams that the Crimson had beaten in the winter...
...fans like to complain about too much shill in sports, where even the scoreboard has a sponsor. As it stands, a relief pitcher in baseball can't enter the ninth inning without announcers mentioning Rolaids or the NYNEX "call to the bullpen." If this keeps up much longer, expectorating on the field will have a sponsor. But there's a good side to corporate ownership. It gives the fan a new way to enjoy the game: buying shares in the company that owns the team...