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Word: duns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...follows the Nile north from the Sudan border; then, near Cairo, comes the blossom, the Nile Delta. In that narrow space of 13,800 sq. mi., no larger than Taiwan, live 37.8 million people, or 97% of the country's population. Almost all the rest of Egypt is brutal, dun-colored desert, unchanged and scarcely touched since the pharaohs. Egypt today is still, as Herodotus wrote 2,500 years ago, "the gift of the river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: The Gift of the River Nile | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

Bang, bang, went his long wooden club shots, as straight as arrows, to the Field, the Lake, and the Dun. Now he wanted two 4's to win, and who that saw it will forget that wholehearted long iron shot smashed right up to the Royal green, with the road on one side and the bunker creeping in on the other...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Writing About the World's Greatest Golf-Writer | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...most famous anamorphic image in art is the smear of paint that tilts upward, like a dun-colored flying saucer, from the bottom of Hans Holbein's 1533 double portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, The Ambassadors. When squinted at edge-on, from the right-hand side of the frame, the smear turns into a skull. The illusion is startling: the rest of the painting disappears and the death's-head floats eerily in a greenish-brown blur. What Holbein meant by it is still a matter of debate among historians. Is it a comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fun-Fair Illusions | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...Angeles-based West Coast Schools recruited mostly black and Chicano students-"because that's where the gravy is," as President Fred Peters told his exwife, according to subcommittee testimony. It then sold nearly $5.4 million in federally insured loans to financial institutions for cash, leaving the institutions to dun dropouts like Ponce for the money or collect from the Government. The Senators heard testimony that at least $312,000 of the school's money found its way into Peters' personal accounts. W.C.S. folded in 1973. Peters was excused from testifying because of ill health. His lawyer told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Student-Loan Mess | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

After Clem called for the Tuesday meeting, Graham read a letter dated May 21 she obtained from K. Dun Gifford '60, vice president for urban affairs of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes, a Cambridge developing firm, to Harvard officials outlining steps Harvard could take to formulate a feasible split-site proposal...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Local Community Leader Calls For Kennedy Library Parley | 6/11/1975 | See Source »

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