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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very good boat is more than the sum of its individual rowers," Boland said. "Everyone pulled real hard but [the malfunction] had some effect on the race, especially the sprint--it was very disorganized. We just didn't add up to much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Badgers Blockade Heavy Hopes at Sprints | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...many people think this is just a group of scientists drawing on a blackboard saying 'yes, this is possible,'" Air Force Lt. General James A. Abrahamson said at an Institute of Politics Forum. "Chunks of progress are being made and the chunks are starting to add...

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: `Star Wars' Termed Possible in 1990s | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

...detracts mightily from the atmosphere of the play. Not only was the seam obvious from my fourth row seat, but it made Roe sound like an extra in a Dristan commercial. During one of the more tedious sections, I started to hope that the nose would fall off and add some needed comic relief, but it never did--another disappointment in a production that never delivers on its obviously enormous potential...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Nose Has It | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

...sets the crooked record straight, or as straight as possible under the circumstances. There is much here about the routines of spying: keeping in touch with your "Joes," the odd assortment of informants who provide trade figures, truck movements and the seemingly meaningless details that may or may not add up to something back at the Firm's headquarters. Magnus' operations take him to Vienna, Prague and Washington, where he concludes that "no country was ever easier to spy on . . . no nation so open-hearted with its secrets, so quick to air them, share them, confide them, or consign them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Tale of the Acorn and the Tree a Perfect Spy | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

While other colleges generally are holding down tenured positions and trimming new appointments to meet crunching costs, DePauw's primary faculty concern seems to be how many people to add: trustees will consider a faculty committee's recommendations to add ten to twelve spots to a full-time tenure staff that now numbers 146. Other DePauw dollars are going into undergraduate centers that combine learning with professional training. Best known is the Center for Management and Entrepreneurship, which attracted Student John Curran, among others, to DePauw. Curran, 22, has completed a six-month ( internship with Eli Lilly & Co. in Indianapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Those Hot Colleges on the Climb | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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