Word: oldest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gates attributes the island's racial accord to the fact that Martha's Vineyard is "one of the oldest, if not the oldest, places in America where African Americans can own beachfront property." Residents also never got too hung up on the issue of racially integrated beaches, which elsewhere had offended the propriety of some whites. (See pictures of world leaders on vacation...
Harvard-Yale Race: 1. The oldest intercollegiate sporting event in the country. 2. Multi-mile crew race held annually on the Thames river in New London, Conn., in which the ever-dominant Harvard crew embarrasses its Eli counterparts...
...Maybe you’ll have an active social life. Maybe you’re an athlete and don’t yet realize how much time that’s going to consume. Maybe an a cappella group or a literary magazine or a certain oldest continuously-published college daily newspaper will take over your life...
Expos 20 endows itself with hints of grandeur: “The Harvard College Writing Program is the oldest in the United States,” the Web site proclaims, beside a photo of the Expos office, an aging townhouse painted an unappealing yellow cream color. “Since 1872, when the program was founded, a course in expository writing has been the one academic experience required of every Harvard student.” Dramatically, the blurb concludes, “We welcome you to ‘Expos,’ a Harvard tradition...
...warehouses. You'll be entertained by all manner of buskers while you browse stalls selling local arts and crafts (hand-worked glass and Tasmanian timber feature strongly). Afterward, wander up the Kelly Steps, built in 1839 to connect Salamanca Place with nearby Battery Point, one of the city's oldest neighborhoods...