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Word: devotee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, associate professor of Psychiatry, will resign his position as director of Student Affairs at the Medical School this summer in order to devote more time to writing and research.

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Director of Student Affairs Leaves Medical School | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

Mary J. McCullough, assistant senior tutor, said they devote more time to their House duties than necessary.

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin and Maxwell Gould, S | Title: Winthrop Masters To Step Down in '79 | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

This is the homestretch of the silly season, when state legislatures across the land seem to vie for the imaginary Golden Nit. There is nothing imaginary, though, about the time, effort and deliberation they customarily devote to the trivial, the insignificant, the utterly negligible. Nebraska's legislature, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Trivial State of the States | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

The Crimson would achieve the same negligible impact (in terms of informing the public on such a heated political issue) if it chose to devote an entire opinion page to a diary-type narrative of the 1948 Deir Yassin Massacre or to a daily account of life in a Palestinian...

Author: By Nina J. Lahoud, | Title: Thirty Years of Frustration | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

In order to continue to aid the improvement of U.S. cities, Proxmire suggested that the government devote more of its funds to aid low-income city residents. He said that in 1975 more federal funds were provided for high income areas of U.S. cities than low income areas--and even...

Author: By Alfred E. Jean, | Title: Proxmire Foresees End of Rise In Federal Aid to U.S. Citizens | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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