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Word: duncan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presence would have had little effect on the outcome, however. Harvard jumped out to a 7-0 lead that they never relinquished, as co-captain Duncan Pyle, Lorren Elkins, Malcolm Cooper and Mack coasted home to win the medley relay in the not-quite awe-inspiring time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Swim Teams Win; Submarine Brown | 1/10/1978 | See Source »

Encyclopedias from Pliny's Historia naturalis of A.D. 77 to the contemporary Britannica have sought to distill the sum of human knowledge. Now British Playwright Ronald Duncan, 63, and Miranda Weston-Smith, 21, have tried a different approach. They have edited and just published The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance (Pergamon Press; $30), a 450-page volume that makes a brave attempt to encompass much of what man does not know. Say the editors: "Compared to the pond of knowledge, our ignorance remains atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Outer Limits | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...difficult task, as any swimmer will tell you), the prodigious freshman got to rest for as long as it took Malcolm Cooper to rocket back and forth across the pool before he swam the 200-yd. Individual Medley. He won that race, beating out Crimson co-captain Duncan Pyle, in the very impressive time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hackett's Debut a Smash | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

Navy must have looked at the recruiting list, and decided that where there's smoke, there's fire.CrimsonStephen K. DiehlCrimson co-captain DUNCAN PYLE races to a second-place finish in the 200-yd. individual medley during Saturday's meet with Navy. Pyle and his mates erased bitter memories of last year's 71-42 defeat at the hands of the Midshipmen by cruising to a 72-41 victory. They resume their schedule next Saturday with a clash against Army at West Point...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Swimmers Triumph As Hackett Excels | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...from there travels by bus to New England, where he can make up to $50 a day picking apples. Wilbert Hutchinson, 28, a truck farmer back home, says he comes to New England "just to have a nice time. I like to watch Wonder Woman." And for Clinton Duncan, 38, who has a wife and seven children home in Kingston, "It's just good to leave your country every now and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Doubly Difficult Apple to Pluck | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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