Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once she fully recovered from her illness, Forman returned to the Falmouth High squads where she continued her assault on the school record book. Despite gearing her training for the middle distances, she finished second in the state cross-country finals for the third year...
...interest in popularizing their fields. A few years ago, Weinberg published "The First Three Minutes" a work which reconstructs in layman's terms the events that followed the Big Bang. It was an enormous success, both here and abroad, and has been translated into many languages. In fact, the book has sold much better in Germany than in the U.S. Glashow, who plans one day to write a book along the lines of his undergraduate course, finds this disturbing: "a better scientifically informed public would be far more capable of dealing with the scientific questions which now confront us--like...
...Agee, a book publisher and a former member of the Brandeis University faculty, says university expansion may be largely an emotional issue. "It is a little two-faced to attack Harvard as an ogre in the city when Harvard is the reason a lot of people are here...
...ABOVE ALL, this is a book of fans and their ballplayers, not of people; of the men the fans saw, the media noted, the photographers etched. Rarely does this picture history show the picture that was never printed, the quote that wasn't punctuated by "heck" and "gee" and a series of ellipses...and the closer the history gets to 1979, the less incisive the history becomes...
...Yawkey is as central a figure in the history of the Sox as any of the players in the book; he is shown cajoling with Ted Williams, Reggie Smith, and everyone loved him. After he bought the franchise in 1933, Yawkey renovated Fenway Park and became the constant in Red Sox lore, and surrounding him has been heartbreak, hope and craziness, good...