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Word: 34th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sophomore Buck Logan crossed the line first for Harvard as he placed 34th overall in 30:50--almost 25 seconds off his best time on the Franklin Park course and 1:33 off Treacy's first place time...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Friars Win NCAA Qualifier; Harvard Harriers Take Ninth | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...other began. The major studios owned some 70% of first-run theaters and refused to distribute any film that did not have P.C.A. approval. Over the next 33 years the P.C.A. gave its seal to only five movies the church had rated C. Films like the superpure Miracle on 34th Street got a B simply because a major character was divorced and unrepentant. The whole system was possible, remarks President Gordon Stulberg of Polygram Pictures, because in those years "there was still a kind of national morality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Scrupulous Monitor Closes Shop | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

Police, FBI agents, the Army's 34th Explosive Ordnance Disposal team and scientists from the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory soon arrived. All day, they gingerly examined the crate, which had twelve switches on top, and the small box with its 28 switches. They X-rayed the big crate and figured that it contained the equivalent of 1,000 sticks of dynamite; inside the small box was detonating equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bringing Down the House | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...when his father lost his shirt and his family lost their New Jersey manse. Instead of a bank vice-president, he became an elevator operator, and Tommy still dreams of the old days, when the rats would murder pigeons on the roof above his bed. No happy Miracle-on-34th-Street memories of his city childhood; instead, the central figure is one Dr. Frankfurt, the local dentist. "Frankfurt would just ram the ether mask over your puss and when you woke up there was enough metal in your mouth to set off the alarm at the airport. Then...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Stomping on Breslin's Ground | 7/25/1980 | See Source »

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