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Word: airs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Headlined by Joe Walland's 281 yards passing in only two and one-half quarters of play, the Elis used six quarterbacks in the game and amassed 369 yards through the air...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard, Brown, Cornell Stay Unbeaten in Ivy Week Two | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

...Widener Library renovation project, pegged at $52 million, will add air conditioning, a new sprinkler system, a new fire detection system and two new reading rooms to Widener...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller and James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: University Poised to Meet Campaign Goal | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

...known for its championing of endangered species, most prominently the Spotted Owl, but also the lesser known (but just as threatened) Larouse Nesting Owl. Most alums go into environmental protection, and have been responsible for such legislation as the Clean Air Act and the Luau...

Author: By Nicholas J. Pinto and Matthew N. Stoller, S | Title: Shopping for Final Clubs | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

...problem with brinkmanship is you have to know where the brink is. Although it wants to keep its confrontation with Chechnya limited to air strikes, Moscow is in danger of lurching right back into the quagmire of three years ago. Russia rolled tanks up to the border Tuesday and bombed the rebel republic for the sixth consecutive day, as tens of thousands of refugees poured out of Chechnya. The Kremlin vowed to stamp out the Islamic rebels it holds responsible for a wave of terrorist bomb attacks on apartment buildings throughout Russia, and has accused the Chechen government of aiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiptoeing to War in Chechnya | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

...turned our backs to the waves because our life vest in the front has a little pocket of air you can breathe if you're under water. I could hear each wave from behind me like a freight train coming. Then it sounded like a jet going past, as it hit me in the back like a 20-lb. sledgehammer. The waves were like five-story buildings--light green, with whitecaps on top. As they broke over me, it all turned a real royal blue, a real pretty, beautiful blue because of the light shining through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adrift in Floyd: It Was Like Watching Hope Float Away | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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