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Word: comes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They support each other in a strange sort of way: One goes through the same stages--you get an idea, and you use your education or your experience to test it," he notes. Both good science and good writing demand imagination, McMahon says, but "the ideas come for nothing, or as a gift." The work comes in testing the ideas: "The ideas themselves aren't worth anything, until they are proved true or false. Just as experiments or theories test scientific ideas, a fictional idea can be proved workable or useless by trying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Powerful Distraction | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...also called for an improvement in teaching. "We must put more emphasis on the quality of teaching. It is difficult to choose these teachers. We try to appoint people who are excellent teachers as well as excellent scholars. Over 70 per cent of teachers given tenure at Harvard come from other universities," Bok said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok Advocates Student-Teacher Links | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

...have come to take your picture...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Keep the Lid On | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

...They will be able to go to the convention with this motion in their pockets and say 'we can't come back.' That will give them some leverage in getting the entire organization to boycott," Dunn said...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Council Votes to Back ERA Boycott | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

...assessing Beckford's athletic and personal attributes, women's track coach Pappy Hunt was not as subtle as Babington: "Kids like Beckford come down the pike only every 25 years...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Local Star Beckford Runs On | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

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