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...tricerotopses hatches from eggs; sloe-eyed brontosauruses wade in marshes; a bony-backed stegosaurus struggles for its life against the meat-eating Tyrannosaurus rex. But as the years flash by, the world mysteriously grows hotter and more violent: swamps evaporate, earthquakes trigger giant tidal waves, and the princely reptiles crawl across an encroaching desert to meet their certain doom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cretaceous Fairy Tales | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...speed and grace of a brontosaurus. Harvard is notorious, particularly in the English Department, for sitting tight and hoping whatever's new and exciting will go away with next year's graduates. But that strategy hasn't paid off with all the permutations of New Criticism, which refused to crawl away and die, and the odds aren't in the department's favor now. As it is, students are deserting the English Department in large numbers for the greener pastures of Literature or of History and Literature...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: Old(e) English(e) | 4/2/1985 | See Source »

...beyond and that, Filene's which is just off the Washington Street Red Line subway stop, is as much a part of Boston as the Bruins Says DelTergo, "Filene's has been here at least as long as I have When I was barely big enough to crawl, I was dragged here by Mommy and Daddy to buy school clothes...

Author: By Shair Rudavsky, | Title: Bustle in the Basement | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

...Tigers slowed the tempo in the first half, they reduced in to a crawl in the second...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Tigers Knock Out Crimson Cagers, 52-45 | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...between the doors of car 9132 of the Long Island Rail Road's 5:47 to Syosset, N.Y. At exactly 5:41 p.m. the last seat is taken. At 5:46 the standing room in the aisles is filled. By 5:49, when the train begins its slow, stately crawl from Pennsylvania Station, only two minutes late, the throng in the vestibule has achieved a degree of intimacy known in other places as close dancing. An oldtimer, folded atop his briefcase into a posture he is willing to describe as sitting, observes that it is one of those rare winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Long Island: Standing Room | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

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