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Word: columbia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Partly for that reason he had three jobs earning him about $75,000 a year, working simultaneously for CBS radio, the New York Times and the Long Island Railroad. His credentials were impressive: B.S. from the University of Buffalo, M.S. from New York University and Ph.D. in geophysics from Columbia. Despite the fact that CBS required no special education to qualify for the job and his colleagues did not take kindly to the title, Harris insisted on being called "Doctor." Then, two weeks ago, the sky fell in on "Doctor Bob." The network learned Bob Harris through an anonymous letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Question of Degree | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...leaves the hoopsters at 2-2 in the Ivy League and 4-14 overall. The team travels to New York today to take on the Lions of Columbia, and are looking for a win which would put them back in the thick of the Ivy race...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Hoopsters Defeat Cornell; Snap Twelve-Game String | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...Basketball at Columbia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOREBOARD | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

Indeed, there is hardly a player on Fordham who could have made the Columbia team much less break into the starting line-up. Penders himself admits that his starting line-up consists of "five guys who play like they've got sprained ankles...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Lion and the Thorn | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

That seedier side is the subject of Skip Tracer, a new Canadian film from the nether reaches of British Columbia. A skip tracer is a fellow who tracks down anyone who has skipped out on a debt. He's the smiling guy in the three-piece suit nailing a For Sale sign on your house, repossessing your car, walking out with all your living room furniture. It's all legal--after all these things are no longer yours--but it's a nasty business, and the people who do it for a living are nastier still--picture...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: No Credit | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

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