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Word: beacon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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What grave robber could resist a target like that? The tumulus is still there, looming above the flat plain, a beacon and a challenge for China's archaeologists, a possible trove of treasures out-dazzling even those on exhibit at the Met. -A. T. Baker

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bronzes and Terra Cotta Soldiers | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...editor of the Suffolk Journal, the weekly student newspaper of Suffolk University on Beacon Hill in Boston, said this week she may take legal action against the university's board of trustees for cutting the newspaper's funding for news year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funding Cut for Student Newspaper | 4/19/1980 | See Source »

...court fight will give "added impetus" to legislation pending on Beacon Hill to allow Cambridge to regulate Harvard expansion into the community, councilor Sullivan predicted...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Harvard Seeks Appraisal; City Leaders Blast Move | 4/17/1980 | See Source »

About 500 demonstrators, including 20 Harvard students, chanting slogans like "Close Windows, Open Closets," protested the opening of the movie "Windows" last night outside the Sack Beacon Hill theater in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gay Harvard Students Protest Movie | 4/12/1980 | See Source »

...Beacon Hill, eight minutes from here by subway, the same kind of natural laws prevail. As a result, state aid to cities and towns won't increase much this year; it may even go down. And who can blame the legislators? After all, they stand for reelection every two years as well...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Cambridge in the Red | 4/11/1980 | See Source »

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