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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mordant cast of eye behind steel-rimmed glasses. But when he described himself, there was no mistaking the original style of the most literate, widely traveled humorist of his time: "Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin and pauper-poor is S.J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: S.J. Perelman | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...think South Africa is far away, but the racism is also right here," Graham said, adding Cambridge residents "better begin to attack racism at home, because that is where the money is coming from to fund apartheid...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Anti-Apartheid Speakers Ask Support In Cambridge Investment Referendum | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...amazingly consistent Kingsberg punted the ball to Scoon, who was waiting next to the deepest Princeton fullback. As Scoon scooted towards right hand corner of the field to get a better angled shot, three Tiger defensemen charged her. Without cutting down on her exceptional speed, Scoon pulled off both a step-over fake and a body fake, which confused the defense and prevented it from stopping her scoring shot...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Booters Blossom, Strip Tigers, 4-0 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, which recently showed pornographic films at a fundraiser in San Diego, lambasted WAP for its apparent opposition to First Amendment rights for publishers and dealers in the business. And feminists of both sexes, believing that the movement's energy could be better spend elsewhere, chose not to get involved in the issue...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Hitting the Hard Core Of the Big Apple | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Although the first five minutes of the game belonged to Harvard, Princeton soon took control and proved the better team throughout the remainder of the first half...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Princeton Purrs Past Stickwomen, 1-0 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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