Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...octogenarian as he pedaled away from an alleged stickup at a Longmont, Colo., bank on a stolen bicycle. Kelm has confessed to a string of stickups committed, he said, to supplement his Social Security check. With a rap sheet covering nearly seven decades, he is believed to be the oldest bank robber on record. If convicted of all charges, Kelm could be sentenced to 120 years in the slammer...
...Faculty room in University Hall--site of formal meetings, ancient oil paintings, the traditions of Harvard's oldest faculty--had an unusual set of overnight visitors 20 years...
...talk SAT scores. Or net worth. Would you like to know what a year at Harvard costs? The amount of financial aid awarded? How many players dish out the full $18,000+ to play hockey for the oldest college in the land...
...Basin's mountain water has been disappearing from here and from three other streams down a tube that leads about 225 miles south to Los Angeles. The result, as bumper stickers, outraged postcards to the Governor, and sober scientific studies have all amply declared, is that this country's oldest lake, and one of its most unusual, is being destroyed. Even the Los Angeles department of water and power concedes that the Mono Lake ecosystem could collapse. "We feel comfortable that we have 20 years before it's going to happen," says David Babb, a staff naturalist. There is time...
...community. Its function is fourfold, says Elimo Njau, a Tanzanian Lutheran painter. Art "makes Christianity African," provides a new context for worship, stimulates devotion and teaches the meaning of the Bible through imagery. Many works are signed collectively; others are anonymous. At Sims Chapel, Zaire's oldest Baptist church, even Sunday school children played their part: their rude drawings provided the basis for the chapel's stained- glass windows...