Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale and Princeton follow Harvard in the ratings, second and third respectively in both social prestige and achievement. "If a college has high social standing, it has high academic quality," Hawes said, adding his book "proves that this is a fact...
...will ever doubt Yastrzemski's indispensibility on the baseball field, and no one was surprised when his adrenalin-powered shot found its way around the right field foul poll and into the seats for the game's first run in the second. And when Yaz popped to third for the final out of the game, myths may have been shattered about his supernatural skills, but respect did not diminish...
Harvard and other universities lobbied intensely but unsuccessfully last fall to eliminate a provision in the Health Manpower Act, passed in 1976, that requires American medical schools to expand their third-year classes by five percent this year to accomodate transfers of American citizens studying in foreign schools...
...games and 8 2/3 innings, after the rise and the fall and the blowout and the desperation eight-game win streak by the Red Sox--the only tangible difference between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox was the 90-foot long stretch of land down the third-base line that blocked Rick Burleson's way to homeplate...
...clutch relief performance stranded the tying run--Burleson--on third, and it put a sudden, cold close to a pulse-stopping contest that everyone knew would be the last of the mad, emotional 1978 regular season...