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Word: displays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Henry Dunster. Harvard's first president: the diary of Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1832; a 1936 Crimson football uniform; and a 1970 T-shirt that says "Strike because your roommate was clubbed" and 16 other calls to rebellion have all landed this winter in a single Pusey Library display case...

Author: By Mark A. Hurwitz, | Title: Three Centuries of Relics | 2/9/1983 | See Source »

...difficult trek was made even more so by the Nigerian police, who gassed and beat some of the expatriates. This ruthless display of xenophobia convinced several who were technically exempt from the sweeping decree that they too should leave...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: West African Tragedy | 2/8/1983 | See Source »

...meet is less certain when you have 12 people who can score." Harvard Coach Vicki Hays said last night. "This meet has to be played differently. Normally, it's just a battle between your top two swimmers and their top two swimmers But here we have a chance to display our depth...

Author: By Jon Askin, | Title: Aquawomen Swamp Six Area Schools; Crimson Team's Depth Dethrones B.U. | 2/3/1983 | See Source »

...boxy, 50-lb. package most of the hardware advances of the past five years: a system that will store nearly 7 million words; a sophisticated "32-bit" microprocessor that is far more powerful than the eight-bit chip in its predecessor, the Apple II; and an ultrasharp video display that can show twice as much detail as a standard computer screen. But the key breakthrough is embodied in Lisa's software, the computer codes that make the machine much easier to operate than any other desktop computer. The operator simply takes the mouse in hand, and a little black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The Year of the Mouse | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, then furtiveness is the true outlaw's salute to the force of law-and-order. The red-light runner, however, shows no respect whatever for the social rules, and society cannot help being harmed by any repetitious and brazen display of contempt for the fundamentals of order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Red Light for Scofflaws | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

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