Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nomo's success is the dominant reason major league teams covet Japanese pitchers. There are two in the Mets camp, and one of them, left-handed reliever Takashi Kashiwada, has a chance of making the team. The Boston Red Sox are saving a spot in the bullpen for Robinson Checo, a Dominican who pitched last year for the Hiroshima Carp...
John H. thus ignited a shopping trend that has shown remarkable staying-power. From Widener Library and Robinson Hall to Loker Commons and the under-construction Barker Center, a sizable check can still buy a little slice of immortality...
Second, a few weeks ago I attended a dissertation colloquium in Robinson Hall. The room was filled with professors, graduate students and undergraduates--all there to listen to a graduate student present his first chapter and to give suggestions. I expected it to be like a poor undergraduate section, with everyone putting in his or her two cents just for the sake of talking. Instead, it became a real discussion, with professors building on the points of undergraduates and vice versa. Everyone left that room with new thoughts about the dissertation topic. It revealed an intellectual side of Harvard that...
...baseball's proudest moment then. It's still baseball's proudest moment, and I believe it will always be baseball's proudest moment."--Acting baseball commissioner Bud Selig, about Jackie Robinson breaking the sport's color line 50 years...
Just as Jackie Robinson made him a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, Duke Snider and other ghosts of the team he loved made him a Los Angeles Dodgers...