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Word: bowe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moving up through the crowd of runners, we found our pace as the pack began to thin a little, leaving room for a normal stride. One of the first highlights of the race was a glimpse of Groucho Marx running by in a tailcoat, undershorts, bow tie, glasses and cigar, speeding through the field in characteristic bent-over running style...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Beyond Heartbreak Hill | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...even worse weather, the Harvard lights outrowed MIT in the whitecapridden basin, while the Dartmouth shell fared worst of all--sinking bow first in the rough water. The winning time of 7:38.0 for the 2000-meter course was indicative of the wind and water conditions--a normal time for that distance is around...

Author: By Peter G. Wilcox, | Title: Harvard Heavies, Lights Take Crowns; Radcliffe Crews Race to Third, First | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...Broadway, of course, every fossilized retread can take a privileged bow once a rainstorm of box-office cash has sanctified it - and Woman of the Year has been showered with a $3.5 million ad vance. As it happens, the evolution of a dramatic form is not that easy to repeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Supremely Sophisticated Lady | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

That represents the movie's bow to realism. Its comic spirit is exercised mainly through repeated shots of Field running awkwardly down roads and railroad tracks in heels of perilous height. The variant on this gag is to have something or someone upend her in order to show her tight skirts stretching across her admittedly adorable bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Detour | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...preserve sales, textbook publishers are beating a none too stately retreat from evolution after giving it strong emphasis in the post-Sputnik editions of the 1960s, which aimed at more and better science teaching. To enter the lucrative Texas market, many biology textbook publishers now bow to a requirement by the state's school board and include a statement that evolution is clearly presented as theory rather than fact. More significant, according to Gerald Skoog, 45, professor of education at Tex as Tech University, textbooks now say less about evolution. Between 1974 and 1977, the section on Darwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Putting Darwin Back in the Dock | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

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