Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Crimson came up a little short, finishing second to the younger Princeton squad, 35-32. Old Dominion (yeah, the school with the good women's basketball team), finished third while Ivy League rivals Yale, Brown. Columbia and Penn would up fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth, respectively...
...slapped with 30 hours of "walking" in return. It would have taken months to work it off, he says, but under a little-know academy rule which states that a visiting head of state can grant amnesty for "walking" cadets, a stopover by the Queen of Thailand cut it short...
George Washington took command soon after the initial fighting, and began fortifying the community. The British kept a steady, but ineffectual, fire trained at the colonials as they dug trenches and built walls. The Americans, too short of ammunition to return the fire, instead chased after errant musket balls to recycle them...
...What the next 250 years will produce we may not tell: our wildest conjecture would fall far short of the reality," Hall said, adding that even "what the next 50 years will bring, we can but dimly imagine...
That's now changed: unofficial estimates put the city's Spanish-speaking population at about 8000, though the 1980 census will probably fall far short of that tally...