Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LOUIS: Once again, history got itself a nice round number -- courtesy of Mark McGwire. With all due respect to the wild-card playoff game that Sammy Sosa and the Cubs will play against the San Francisco Giants on Monday, the 162-game regular season is over, and so is the historic 1998 home run race. Mark McGwire did that with four staggering blasts in two days, leaving his comrade-in-forearms Sammy blinking in the dust and trying to help his Cubs find their way into the playoffs. Any Sosa comeback now in his extra nine innings is practically...
...supposed to break Maris's record, if you could say that about anyone, and in that way it turned out right. Who but McGwire, after all, could not just pass Maris, not just leave the pesky Sosa behind, but keep piling on the homers until he hit a nice round number, just like Ruth? Mere players set records. When you're larger than life, only a plateau will...
With the first round of applications for Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships and Fulbright Grants in the hands of various selection committees, all that anxious senior applicants can do is wait...
Harvard would like to use that advantage to add some numbers to the win column and will play Pittsburgh, Manhattan and St. John's in the round-robin tournament at the Malkin Athletic Center...
Among the outstanding Harvard athletes to be recognized are track Olympian Meredith L. Rainey '90 and Allison S. Feaster '98, a first round draft pick in the Women's National Basketball Association...