Word: 11th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...election, the Real Paper ranked Preusser third and she finished 11th behind the nine successful candidates. "I don't think that [her showing] weighed very heavily in our decision this year," Martin A. Linsky, editor of the Real Paper, said yesterday. "I think we were looking for the strongest candidate, and she seems the best way to ensure liberal strength on the council," he added...
...toughest foe the Crimson has faced thus far this year, Brown first converted these tactics into a goal. They scored at the 11th minute of the first half when Geoff Elliot headed a 40-yard kick from midfield to Ted Framalopolous who pushed the ball past Harvard goalie Dave Balton as he tried vainly to swim over to the left of the goal in time to stop the ball...
...story of the game, though, was written by the defense. Strong throughout the game--especially against the wind in the first half--Herold absolutely shone in the 11th hour, as he stood off a Cornell offense that swarmed in the last ten minutes of regulation and in both overtimes...
Romantic love was introduced to Western culture by late 11th century troubadours. Since then the telltale symptoms -pain of longing, wide-eyed idealization of the beloved and vibrato of the soul -have become established as the preferred form of sexual attraction. Now, however, it may be nearing the end of its 900-year run. According to a Michigan State University psychologist, romantic love is dying out. Claims Professor G. Marian Kinget: "One is bound to conclude that the very conditions for romantic love have ceased to exist...
...Vintner John's armigeral sons emigrated to the American colonies aboard the good ship Safety in 1635. Jimmy's 11th generation ancestor Thomas became a well-to-do Virginia planter, while his elder brother John acquired an even richer swath of Old Dominion farm land. It was John's son, Robert ("King") Carter, who became the first American millionaire. According to Harold Brooks-Baker, Debrett's managing director, hustling King Carter owned 300,000 acres, more than 1,000 slaves and perhaps the largest collection of books in the colonies -at a time, notes Brooks-Baker...