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Word: dropped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dwight W. Perkins, chairman of the Economics Department, says he doubts his tutorial program will change. "The honest answer is no," he admits. Offering a common faculty argument for leaving tutorials in graduate students' hands: If the professor teaches tutorial, he will have to drop a lecture course. Perkins concedes that some professors have managed to carry the double load--Kenneth J. Arrow, Conant University Professor, is one distinguished example...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Status Quo | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

...swimmer will start to feel the drop in oxygen at about 3000 feet above sea level. The air in Mexico City, located about 7000 feet above sea level, caused several swimmers to hyperventilate and "due to the altitude, no one in the meet from the U.S. team swam their best times," Stephie Walsh, coach of the Harvard women's swim team and manager of the U.S. team at the Games, said...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: A Change in Altitude | 9/20/1979 | See Source »

...have only touched on how worthless this album is, how insipid and unprofessional. B-52s drop things, and cows drop things too, which because they are loose and watery become flat and circular and, in the winter, hard and very much like a record. Get yourself a wig and an electric guitar. In America anything is possible...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Ban the Bombers | 9/18/1979 | See Source »

...Gulf official said a mild winter may actually result in a drop of consumer prices, but cautioned Congress not to be optimistic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oil Firms Testify | 9/18/1979 | See Source »

...American way is blessed in the end--family, competition, team spirit, college and friendship--all are affirmed in Dave's final victory. Yates creates just enough ambivalence to stop short of cuteness, but he knows better than to drop the full weight of the heavy hand of Social Conscience on Breaking Away. He pushes ahead to an upbeat finish...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: The Best Movie on Wheels | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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