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Word: avise (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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It turned out they put them on two legs at a time, leaping high and accomplishing the maneuver in midair. The networks sold all available time to the underarm and antifreeze boys and predicted the biggest TV audience in history. Brezhnev said let Teng put that in his cowboy hat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Armageddon in the Superdome | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

For Penn State, once football's Avis, winning never Hertz

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 1 and Still Climbing | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Penn State did all this, and still remained the Avis of big-time college football. It was a frequent also-ran in the weekly A.P. and U.P.I, polls of sportswriters and coaches, but never was it No. 1. This year, however, the men from State College, Pa., finally made it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 1 and Still Climbing | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

In fact, the impression I left with was that the proposal for creating an environment in which teaching skills might receive unwonted (and, yes, in some quarters, unwanted) recognition at this University had actually gotten off the ground. Student interest and pressure can help keep it in flight, and may...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Different Recollection | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Bennette Avis Shultz Watertown Mass.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1977 | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

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