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Word: curiouser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is another curious reason why the California eggs may not taste very different from the ordinary variety. According to the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Md., the high cholesterol counts that have given ordinary eggs their bad reputation may have been wrong to begin with. Using newer methods of testing, researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven have found that conventional eggs contain between 172 and 232 mg of cholesterol, instead of the 274 previously measured. That would place them somewhat closer to the count of Rosemary Farm eggs. So even if the brave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Something To Cluck About | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

Approximately 10 Harvard students have called the service, said David, but "no one who called was serious--one or two curious, perhaps, just not serious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 11/17/1988 | See Source »

Even the definition of "privacy" can be questioned given the current conditions of the computer field. Would one arrest a curious individual wandering through a supposedly secure building with no locks...

Author: By Mark R. Hoffenberg, | Title: Re-Morris | 11/15/1988 | See Source »

...UB40 finally has its breakthrough American record, a splendid, island-tinged version of Neil Diamond's 1968 Red Red Wine. This is the same song UB40 couldn't put over five years ago. By one of those odd combinations of luck and fluke that make the music business so curious, + J.J. Morgan, a deejay at KKFR-FM in Phoenix, played the tune during a show in May, and, he reports, "within 24 hours, Red Red Wine was our most requested song. We didn't intend to make it a hit. It just happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Reggae's Bulgarian Acrobats UB40 eases onto the chart tops with an old hit | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

More than 1000 fans, parents, relatives and other curious souls watched the Engineers in early September as they successfully opened the season over Stonehill, 29-7. CBS broadcast segments of the game...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: MIT Football: Gridders or Geeks? | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

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