Word: oldest
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Before the visit, one more-than-slightly-misinformed Boston Globe writer called Andover one of the oldest (est. 1778), preppiest bastions of WASP hood in the country, a place where future Republicans are hatched...
...flipped through the rest of the guide in the fall of 1991, you might not have noticed. That year, the presidents of The Crimson, the Lampoon, the Advocate and Phillips Brooks House Association--four of Harvard's oldest, most established organizations--were women. But in the fall of 1992, you might have noticed again. All four organizations had male presidents...
...approved choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, coming to the defense of 35 pesticides that potentially cause cancer. Arguing that they actually pose little threat to human health since they are consumed in extremely minute amounts, she seemed poised to ask Congress to relax one of America's oldest and most stringent food-safety laws so that farmers could keep applying the chemicals to crops...
...spring reborn in the world's oldest democracy, that brings forth the vision and courage to reinvent America...
...great when you beat the best," Keefe said. "I'm proud of what we've done." After the meet was over, some in the Harvard stands reacted with the oldest comeback in sports--it chanted "Eas-terns, Eas-terns," a not-so-subtle reference as to who will be favored to win that tournament...