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Word: twentieth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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There have been plenty of good funds, of course. In the same 10-year period, Twentieth Century Giftrust rose a whopping 617%--turning $10,000 into $71,700. FPA Capital jumped 595%; PBHG Growth Fund popped 589%. And the really good news is that the 20 largest stock funds, which together account for nearly a third of all assets in domestic stock funds, have come much closer to matching the S&P 500 than most. If you own any of the winners, count your blessings. Just don't count on continued outperformance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUR FUND IS NOT UP TO PAR | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...proceeds from the event will support writers from Armenia, a country that suffered the first genocide of the twentieth century when hundreds of Armenians--including two hundred poets--where killed by Turks in Istanbul in 1915, said Christopher Lydon, master of ceremonies and a WBUR talk show host...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heaney Reads Poetry at Fundraiser | 12/3/1996 | See Source »

...produced an impressive tone in the louder passages. Maybe HRO felt some affinity with the piece, which the composer wrote as a senior project at the age of 18 (and you think you work too hard on your thesis). Or maybe the orchestra is just more comfortable in the twentieth century; in one concert last year, it seemed to do better in Petrushka than in a simpler piece by Wagner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Sanders, Not Quite Triple the Pleasure | 11/7/1996 | See Source »

...matter how uninspiring the election may be, we must recognize that from engineering the design to being on the consulting case team to trying to decide where it should be placed, it is the college students of today who will be instrumental in building the proverbial bridge to the twentieth century. We shouldn't just gather in Loker and the IOP to watch the outcomes--we should be part of the outcomes. So savor today, and look forward to many years of actual lever-pulling in the future. The country is ours to mold and change. And sure, perhaps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Building That Bridge | 11/5/1996 | See Source »

...Bovine Meat, but I had never thought about the possibility of actually holding it in my hands. Once I discovered the right shelf, I opened up a volume from 1930s, and there was Hemingway; one from the 1960s, and there was Mailer. It was the literary history of the twentieth century, trussed up in a neat package from which some intrepid historiographer could make a book...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: A Bookworm's Confession | 11/1/1996 | See Source »

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