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Word: decks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Navy's win in the finals avenged an eight-tenths second loss to Butgers in the morning qualifications. Even more shocking in the preliminaries was a scare from B. U., which left the Middies a slim half a deck from elimination...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Navy Ends Crimson Sprint Domination | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

...varsity upset was pulled off by a Middie crew which included four members of last year's Eastern Sprint champion plebe (freshmen) eight. Ullrich's squad jumped to a deck lead off the start and increased the margin to three-quarters of a length at the half-way mark...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: For the Moment, Middies King of the River | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

Aranson seems almost to have been born on the wharves of Nan tucket. He walks with sea legs. The floorboards become a deck, rolling under his feet with the long, steady rhythm of an ocean swell. There are fogs, stars, spars and billowing sails in his voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Harpooning Fate | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

Princeton will definitely offer the most competition to the Crimson. In the Tigers' first meet of the year, they disposed of Rutgers by four lengths and Navy by a deck. Last week on the Charles, Harvard beat the Scarlet Knights by 12.6 seconds, which equals three lengths...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Parker Shuffles Boat For Compton Cup Race | 4/24/1971 | See Source »

...from among 20 amino acids to produce complex proteins by using an informational system that had only four code letters?the four bases?at its disposal? An answer to this intriguing problem was suggested by Physicist George Gamow, who likened the four bases to the different suits in a deck of playing cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE CELL: Unraveling the Double Helix and the Secret of Life | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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