Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following the 1000 freestyle came a rare tie in the 200 freestyle between Harvard's Janice Sweetser and Darcie Ekert of Princeton. Their time of 1:52.54 was fast enough to give Sweetser a school record in the event...
Wade Davis, a 28-year-old Canadian pursuing a Ph.D. in Harvard's Biology Department, discovered a rare Haitian drug that can actually turn people into zombies by lowering their metabolic rates to make them appear dead...
This year, in a rare display of tokenism, Sports Illustrated has included photographs of a Black woman. In previous years, only white women with WASPy names (with the recent exception of Paulina Porizkova) were considered beautiful enough to grace the issue's pages...
...Ross Perot gave Texas education a kick in the pants by leading the drive for the controversial no-pass, no-play rule for student athletes. Now he has given Texas letters an incalculable shot in the arm by presenting the University of Texas at Austin with a rare early English literary collection of 1,105 volumes and 250 manuscript groups. Included are first editions of Donne, Milton and Shakespeare, as well as the first book ever printed in English, Raoul Le Fevre's The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. In the largest such sale ever, Perot, 55, paid...
...Faberge's rare masterpieces, or rather what looks like one, is now the subject of a bitter legal battle that has scandalized the art-sales world. The combatants are Eskandar Aryeh, an Iranian-born millionaire who has filed a $37 million suit, and Christie's, the renowned London-based auction house...