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Word: beacon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision, which will effectively close the fraternity, calls for residents of the fraternity house at 484 Beacon St. in Boston to move...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT Revokes SAE Fraternity's License | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...strokes per minute. Beat the other crew pretty solidly on the first and third, and only marginally on the second piece, although we were helped by the other boat's inexperienced coxswain, whose creative steering maneuvers included running the boat up on the sandbank between Arsenal and North Beacon on the first piece. After practice they said they heard the skeg drag along the bottom, but it stayed attached...

Author: By Jesse C. Nussbaum, | Title: A Rower's Diary | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...raced two single-file pieces at 26 to 28 s.p.m.; the first from just above the B.U. bridge to North Beacon and the second from North Beacon back to Anderson bridge. Due to the inexperience of the other crew's coxswain, we started first both times so she could steer off our stern. On the first piece the other crew was clearly faster and we could see them catch up on the straight-aways and then fall back on the turns as our coxswain steered tighter. The boats were timed separately, and over the 26 minutes we lost...

Author: By Jesse C. Nussbaum, | Title: A Rower's Diary | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...wished to catch a cinematic screening at the Loews Fresh Pond Theaters faced a daunting trek. After dashing down the alley path from the T, avoiding vehicular death on Rindge Avenue, adventurers found themselves atop a mountain from which they could spy the neon movie sign glowing like a beacon in the distance. Only the bravest could carry on; the mission demanded they rappel down the gravely dirt mound and, finally, leap from the wall to get to their flicks...

Author: By V.c. Hallett, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Behold! Alewife Stairs | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...Reilly said he was from a wealthy Irish family and owned an apartment on Beacon Hill. He said that his workload often prevented him from making the trip home...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Hunt for Homeless Intruder | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

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