varsity Definition: (noun) The principal team representing a university, college, or school in sports, games, or other competitions. Synonyms: first team Usage: She was determined to make the varsity basketball team and practiced her game all summer.
Doris Eaton Travis (1904) Travis was a Broadway and film performer who began her career at the age of 14 by joining the Ziegfeld Follies, the long-running annual Broadway revue famous for its extraordinarily elaborate theatrical productions and chorus of […]
NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman wrote an op-ed in the New York Daily News on the minimum wage. Highlights from the op-ed are below: ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM: We can address this problem in one of two ways. The […]
AIR FORCE IN CRISIS Frank V. Vernuccio, Jr., J.D. It’s the crisis that almost everyone prefers not to discuss: the rapid deterioration of the U.S. armed forces, at the same time that adversaries Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are […]
COURT APPEARANCE: Belva A. Lockwood Monday, March 14 — This month in 1879 marked a milestone in women’s history and the opportunities available to them. Earlier, President Rutherford Hayes signed a congressional act “to relieve certain legal disabilities of […]
Local Player from The Bronx Helps Seton Hall to Upset Villanova and Capture Big East Title By Howard Goldin Villanova (29-5), the top seed in the Big East Tournament, was defeated by third seed and the nationally unranked Seton Hall […]
Home Opener for NYC FC Soccer at Yankee Stadium Created a Buzz By Rich Mancuso / Sports Editor There was this buzz outside Yankee Stadium Sunday afternoon and it is expected with Opening Day at the ballpark. But this […]
New York State Youth Pardon Program Governor Andrew M. Cuomo is offering executive pardons to New Yorkers convicted of nonviolent crimes at ages 16 and 17, who have been crime free for a minimum of 10 years since their offense. […]
At about 9:30am, good Samaritan Paulin Bujaj, helped rouse a sleeping family on the first floor of a 2 family home near the corners of Paulding Avenue and Williamsbridge Road. Mr. Bujaj was searching for a parking spot when he noticed […]
The right time is any time that one is still solucky as to have. Henry James (1843-1916)
scapegrace Definition: (noun) A scoundrel. Synonyms: rascal Usage: Both Kuragin and Dolokhov were at that timenotorious among the rakes and scapegraces ofPetersburg.
Percival Lowell (1855) Lowell was an astronomer who built a privateobservatory in Arizona to study Mars andchampioned the idea that intelligentinhabitants of the Red Planet had constructeda planetwide system of irrigation there. Hebelieved that the so-called canals of Marswere bands […]
VOTER REGISTRATION The right to vote began to receive some supervision more than two centuries ago, when Massachusetts acted this month in 1801 to register voters. At that time, the franchise was limited to men — usually those of local repute […]
Car and car parts dealers had sales of $1.0 trillion, representing an increase of 6.5 percent over the previous year, according to new statistics released today from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 Annual Retail Trade Survey. The Census Bureau […]
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