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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matches at M.I.T. will be the first in a grueling schedule of three matches in four days. On Thursday the netmen meet Amherst, which is reputedly strong this year, and on Saturday they will journey to Penn. Penn has a powerful team, and holds a big advantage on its hard courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Netmen Face M.I.T. Test | 4/9/1969 | See Source »

Mahoney's polite came under attack from Vellucci who charged "He just wants to keep the guy from M.I.T. and give the axe to Harvard. The big bosses at M.I.T. told him 'vote for Lunn or we'll get rid of you.'" Mahoney is a professor at M.I.T...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: City Councillors Reject Two Members of CRA | 4/8/1969 | See Source »

...play Little Murders and the Broadway musical 1776 looked ready to be counted among the losers before they opened. The former had already failed once in New York (on Broadway in 1967, when it flopped in seven performances); the latter got mediocre reviews during its road tryout, had no big names among its cast or credits, and opened in New York to almost no advance ticket sales...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Little Murders and 1776 | 4/8/1969 | See Source »

...tears the newspaper to shreads all over the floor. He gobbles my socks. It drives me nuts. It reminds me how much he wants to go out and run around in the street. He'd be killed if he did. Dogs should be allowed to grow up on big farms, and run around over the fields, and know all kinds of dog things about the land that we could never know...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Two Short Essays | 4/7/1969 | See Source »

Every time I go to New York City I see men in those big flat overcoats that prove you're successful walking their dogs. It always made me feel to be in a world other than theirs when I saw them shuffle back and forth staring at the streetlights while the dog on the other end of their leash let go on a fire hydrant. What are the metaphysics of a dog walker's reality? They couldn't be of Nature as we know it to be natural...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Two Short Essays | 4/7/1969 | See Source »

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