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Word: closers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Halberstam writes, "through a world war and a Great Depression, the White House had employed only one person to handle the incoming mail. Herbert Hoover had received, for example, some 40 letters a day. After Franklin Roosevelt arrived and began to make his radio speeches, the average was closer to 4,000 letters a day." After F.D.R. and radio found each other, the faster news was reported the faster it began to occur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Names That Make the News | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...unseeded Crimson doubles pair of Libby Pierpont and Sally Roberts sparkled en route to a semi-final confrontation with top-seeded Tiger duo, Kris Kinney and Anne Renfrew. In what Crimson coach Peter Felske described as a closer match than the score indicates, Roberts and Pierpont succumbed...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Netwomen Gain Third Place at Ivies | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...hard to say how long it might have taken for an Afro-American Studies Department to be approved by the Faculty, had the events of that week in April not shocked the Faculty into closer attention to student demands...

Author: By Eileen M. Smith, | Title: Afro: A Decade Of Debate | 4/27/1979 | See Source »

What has happened in the intervening years is that the Met's budgetary troubles have forced a reevaluation of the national tour. It might once have been a luxury that helped bring the Met closer to the national audiences gathered around radios every Saturday afternoon to hear opera broadcasts; it has become--along with the opera blitz on public television--a critical part of the Met's campaign to raise money across the country...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Meet the Met: | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...lacrosse team--Harvard (check Tuesday's Globe if you don't believe me)--beat its opponent into the ground for the seventh time in its latest seven outings. The victim was a surprisingly tough UNH squad, and the score was a misleading 11-6--misleading because it was closer than that...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Stickmen Bury UNH, 11-6 For Seventh Straight Win | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

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