Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the Harvard women's soccer team ended the season on a bit of a sour note, falling to Ivy League champion Brown, 1-0, Saturday at Ohiri Field in front of 80 fans, the Crimson had a successful rebuilding year...
...Note: no team has ever won the Ivy title with a 4-3 record...
...things about the North Pole. First, Santa Claus lives there. Second, Admiral Robert E. Peary was the first person to get there, on April 6, 1909. Evidently these two lessons could be equally elaborate fictions. Geographers have concluded that Peary probably missed the Pole. Now Peary's handwritten notes of sextant readings, compass bearings and the sun's altitudes have surfaced. They indicate that the explorer himself knew he was no closer than 105 nautical miles away, according to Baltimore astronomer-historian Dennis Rawlins. The jottings, found in an envelope dated April 5 and 6, 1909, by Peary's wife...
White's book about 1960 is in some ways a hymn and a poem not only to American democracy but to the American landscape and American people, to their varieties and resonances. White's writing then strikes a heroic note that sounds odd to the American ear now. But perhaps a sense of eloquence and size has passed out of history's favor...
Indeed, it is such a pleasure that Argeros forgot to mention that the rebate was almost two points lower than last year's 9.5 percent. In fact, our patronage was appreciated so much that he also failed to note that the rebate was the lowest in 12 years...