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Word: brightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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That fact alone should be enough to encourage most Harvard students to trek to Bright Center to watch the Crimson in action. But some fans need a little more incentive...a little cheering in their lives. The best source of that excitement? The Harvard Band...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Banding Together in Detroit | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...course not true that the prisoner's way of talking was noticeably Californian. But Clumly hated California, or anyway felt alarmed by it...Clumly's wife was a blind woman with bright glass eyes and small, pinched features and a body as white as his own. Her small shoulders sagged and her neck was long, so that her head seemed to sway above her like a hairy sunflower. He minded the way she filled her teacup one finger over the rim to watch the level, and he minded the way she talked to herself perpetually, going about the house with...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: The Magic Gardner | 3/25/1987 | See Source »

Last weekend at Bright Center, another friend said, "I think that if Harvard wins the title next weekend, it will be our first team little since...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: An Urban Legend | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

...changes in the sky, were especially impressed by "guest stars." They regarded such astronomical visitors as omens of important events on earth. What may be the earliest Chinese record of a supernova is an inscription on a bit of bone, dating from about 1300 B.C., that describes a bright star appearing near the star now known as Antares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supernova! | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

John Gotti likes to dress and drive for success, preferring $1,800 double- breasted suits and a black Mercedes 450 SL, all in keeping with his reputation as the "Dapper Don" of the underworld. Last week he had reason to top the spiffy threads with a bright, back-in-business smile. The reputed boss of America's largest Mafia family was acquitted by a New York jury of federal racketeering charges brought against him nearly two years ago by federal prosecutors. As the jury foreman called out not-guilty findings for Gotti and six co-defendants, including Gotti's brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dapper Don Beats a Rap | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

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