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century

adjective as in of one hundred years

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But the things Shohei Ohtani does on the field are so astonishing that they make you wonder if everything you thought you knew about baseball for the last century and a half was wrong.

Red Owl, a member of the Bishop Paiute Tribe, is executive director of the Owens Valley Indian Water Commission, which focuses on helping tribes regain some of the lands and water they lost more than a century ago, first to white farmers and ranchers, then to Los Angeles.

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More than half a century ago, he said, a spring-fed pool shimmered in this spot.

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The "remarkable" 17th century building, once home to the bard's daughter Susanna and her husband John Hall, was already undergoing a significant conservation project to help preserve it.

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Falls of Clyde was the first in a series of eight iron-hulled ships built in the late 19th Century by the Port Glasgow shipbuilder Russell & Co.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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