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Word: catched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much a Harvard tradition as Mr. Test, Frank Corliss '27 is not half so elusive. Students see him more often than they think, some on their way to and from classes, others when they decide to catch up on studying before hourlies. He's the Lamont Library book checker--the man who asks for your bursar's card as you rush to the reserve desk, and inspects your books when you leave the building...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: A Tradition In Lamont | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

Still, the game's best defensive play was a portent of heroics to come and a change in the fortunes of the Series. Yankee Third Baseman Graig Nettles, acquired in a trade with Cleveland before the 1973 season, made a spectacular diving catch of a line drive. In the next game, back in Yankee Stadium, Nettles showed he had the millisecond reflexes and cannon arm to be ranked with Brooks Robinson at third. When a weary-armed Ron Guidry turned shaky on the mound, Nettles stifled Dodger rally after rally. Any one of his four sprawling, crawling, flying, levitating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Paths to Glory | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...center of this tour de force is The Fisherman and His Wife, the folk tale about the man who releases his magic catch after the fish promises to grant his wishes. In the traditional version, the fisherman's wife, Hsebill, ruins good fortune with her greed. In Grasss ich-theology, the ageless narrator tells his equally timeless mate Ilsebill how he threw the fish back into the Baltic after it had agreed to bring him knowledge of the outside world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Turbot de Force | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...Jamie was probably the key player," teammate Fitts said. Egasti scored twice, both on a 40-yard catch and on a reverse play, with only seconds left in the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Tacklers Fight it Out Leverett, Kirkland Victorious | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

...lead in the polls, and the governor still spends most of his time struggling against his own misanthropic image. And so out in Montauk, where Perry's people are readying the boats for a winter season of dark surf and sharp winds and streaming silver fish too small to catch, the mood is light despite the weather. In early November, after all, the fluke start running, and it looks like a good season...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: A New York State of Mind | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

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