31.   Born in Fort Morgan, Colo., Crothers graduated from Wooster College in Wooster, Ohio, and received a doctorate in modern European history from Columbia University.

32.   A gripping, fast-paced story that reads like headlines from real assassinations and conspiracies in modern U.S. history.

33.   A Senators victory would leave them with the first playoff triumph in their modern history and give Slewidge a larger audience for the second round.

34.   A united Germany remains a faithful NATO ally, deeply committed to the European Union, surrounded, for the first time in its modern history, by allies.

35.   A timeline of modern Irish history.

36.   Abegglen and many other scholars note that Japan has swung between orientation toward Asia and orientation toward the West throughout its modern history.

37.   Accorsi, after exhaustive investigation, completed the biggest and most dramatic free-agent acquisition in the modern history of the Giants.

38.   After all, people could no longer ignore the dire warnings of scientists who predict that the worst urban temblor in modern history was merely a prelude to more.

39.   After nine rain-filled years, South Florida may be on the brink of its harshest water shortage in modern history.

40.   Albany was a crossroads for this forced mass migration, one of the most ambitious social engineering experiments in modern American history.