Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fred met this same guy at the Coast Guard Tournament and lost the match," Harvard Coach Jim Peckham said. "Yesterday, the guy had to come up from behind to tie the match, so Fred had a great match...
...seniors and Coach Jim Peckham appreciated the win, as a fitting end to the season...
...track events, senior distance runner Timothy Harte led the way with a stellar third-place finish in the 3000-meter run with a time of 8:25.38 in a field that included Yale All-American Jim Gibson...
...slave master, dispenser of all things. Many blacks were trapped in ghettos as surely and hopelessly as slaves on plantations. Perhaps civil rights organizations, designed to battle discrimination and hardening over the years into institutional mind-sets, could not adjust to new realities and needs after the structure of Jim Crow had been torn down. At worst, the Great Society turned the leaders into petitioners, even while thousands upon thousands of working-class blacks toiled in the hardest, dirtiest jobs rather than accept welfare...
After the Civil War, speculator Jim Fisk attempted to corner the gold market. The price escalated until President U.S. Grant stepped in and unloaded $4 million worth of Government gold certificates. The tactic worked, but prices on the stock exchange kept on plummeting for two years. The small investor, as always, suffered the most. But it was Fisk whose complaint entered history: "A fellow can't have a little innocent fun, without everyone raising a haloo and going wild...