Word: 23rd
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...program, kicked off this fall with a $700,000 endowment from the University, aims to improve the quality of public schools. It also salutes Conant, Harvard's 23rd president who served from 1933 to 19553 and was considered a strong advocate of public school reform...
Legend will someday have it that Author Elmore Leonard became an overnight success with his 23rd novel. Such is not quite the case. True, Glitz (1985) rocketed toward the top of hardback best-seller lists, a feat that earlier Leonard books had not accomplished. Credit for this commercial breakthrough has been given to the huge promotional campaign waged on behalf of Glitz by its publisher. All those ads certainly did not hurt. But Leonard's triumph may have a somewhat less expensive explanation: the devoted readers who enjoyed and passed along the writer's early westerns (Hombre) and those...
...before, but it's worth repeating that this 13-0 Crimson squad is the first to be ranked number one in the country, has tied a 50-year-old record for consecutive victories at the start of the season, and has broken a 23-year-old record with its 23rd straight game at Bright Center without a loss...
...victory over RPI was Harvard's 23rd straight game at Bright Center without a loss, and it was also its 13th consecutive win at the start of the season. The 1936-'37 Crimson also opened its season with 13 straight victories...
...plot could be torn from yesterday's headlines: SEA SHEPHERD FROM OUTER SPACE. Imagine that the environmental activists who recently sank two Icelandic whaling vessels were the rulers of a 23rd century planet, and that they had sent to earth a probe with signals that could be answered only by humpback whales -- a species that had been hunted to extinction by blubber- lusting 20th century man. If the whales don't talk back, the earth blows up. So the Star Trek crew must become time travelers. They must boomerang their stolen Klingon warship around the sun, land in San Francisco...