Word: oldest
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...Harvard-Princeton rivalry is one of the oldest and most prestigious in the country, going back more than a century to the days when Harvard fielded the entire U.S. Davis Cup team and, at one point garnered six consecutive national championships...
...oldest of Tibetan Buddhism's four allied schools, Kagyu Karma was the first to adopt reincarnation as a means of choosing its leader, called the Karmapa. The process is not always peaceful; over the centuries, warring factions have sponsored dueling candidates, igniting bloody battles...
...fact, both the Lampoon and the Harvard Advocate, the oldest literary magazine in the country, have had problems producing their magazines this semester...
Barrett, who was the second oldest of tenchildren, says he remained quite attached to hisfamily during his college years...
...Grandson -- along with several arm bones from other males. The new fossils virtually clinch the view that A. afarensis is one species, placing it more firmly than ever at the root of the human family tree. And because the specimens are nearly a million years younger than the very oldest A. afarensis bones, they argue that Lucy and her relatives were an extraordinarily long-lived species. Says Alan Walker, an expert on early human anatomy at Johns Hopkins: "Everybody's very excited about this...