Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cliffe sailors went to the University of Rhode Island to capture the Powder Puff trophy. The oldest trophy the Radcliffe team sails for, it is also the one they have the hardest time winning. Last year the Radcliffe women took it for the first time in five years...
...trading volume-there is still a pervasive worry over the future of the stock market as a capital-raising mechanism. The Big Board's Needham fears that negotiated commissions and a central market could decrease incentive to belong to the N.Y.S.E. and weaken the nation's oldest and most important stock exchange. He worries also that the changes will tend to increase institutional dominance of the market, making it increasingly inhospitable to individuals. They will continue doing what they have been doing for some time: investing elsewhere-in commodities or funds that buy interest-bearing securities. Small investors...
...story of the sixties at Harvard, and at many other institutions as well, could not be understood as an exceptional event. Rather, Harvard, as the oldest and pre-eminent American university, had fount itself intensely involved in almost every wave and type of controversy that has run through American higher education. If the sixties taught any lesson to those participating in American collegiate life, it is that people who do not know their own history cannot know on what road they are. Since politics, conventional and unconventional, conservative and radical, will continue in the university world as long as such...
...four oldest brothers have gone through Harvard Medical School, and her older sister, whom Guyton describes as "sort of a rebel," is doing graduate work in chemistry. Guyton herself will enter Duke Medical School next fall...
...crystal Baccarat table was designed for a 19th century Indian maharajah; the gilded piano was once played by Chopin. But the bearskin rugs, emperor-size bed and rhinestone-studded recreation room could belong only to Liberace, 55. Now music's oldest glitter rocker has opened his rococo Hollywood Hills mansion, complete with toothy portraits of the maestro himself, to public tours at $5.90 a pop. His share of the profits, says Lee, will help support aspiring artists like Protégé Vince Cardell, 35. Thirty-two guides have been trained by Liberace, and four gold-jacketed salesgirls staff...