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Word: bowlful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poetry that MacLeish kept producing during these years acquired a solemnly official ring. Land of the Free, written to accompany a series of Dust Bowl photographs, purported to record the unspoken questionings of the People; America Was Promises urged the same People to demand their rights ("Listen! Brothers! . . ./ Companions of leaves: of the sun"). These symphonic musings inspired Edmund Wilson to malicious parody: "And the questions and/ Questions/ questioning What am I? O/ What shall I/ remember? . . ./ Till the hearer cried:/ 'If only MacLeish could remember if only could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Poet for the People | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...YORK--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill defeated Rice University for first place in the College Bowl National Championship last month...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Trivia Champions | 5/1/1982 | See Source »

...College Bowl--nationally organized as the "varsity sport of the mind" by the Association of College Unions-International--was a popular Sunday afternoon TV trivia quiz show years ago, pitting teams of three students against each other for the academic honor of their school...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Trivia Champions | 5/1/1982 | See Source »

...surprising incident, the night before a College Bowl competition in December. Rapkin said, he had a whim to carefully examine the back of a $1 bill. Strangely, one of the first questions the next day was: "What is on the back of a dollar bill?" Rapkin's team answered the question and went on to win the match...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Trivia Champions | 5/1/1982 | See Source »

Harvard's number-one ranking in this weekend's Eastern AIAW Championships, which will be played at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, is just one more obvious indication of Kleinfelder's and her team's prowess, and it is in the Easterns rather than in the realm of speculation and accusation that the laxwomen prefer to concentrate their energies...

Author: By John Beilenson, | Title: A Different Sport, A Different Story | 4/30/1982 | See Source »

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