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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, chances are that more people know Scheper the Broadcaster than Scheper the Center. He's the voice of Harvard basketball for WHRB and Marc Sobil, the station's sports director, says "everyone knows he's our best sports-caster...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Dave Scheper: The Center of Attraction | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...some experts have said Stonehenge's builders could predict solar eclipses by making observations from certain positions near the main ring, Gingerich said he is reluctant to accept such a theory. Even though eclipses can be roughly predicted with the stone formation, ancient peoples may not have observed this fact or understood the phenomenon, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gingerich Questions Stonehenge Theory | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...awfully hard to feel sorry for a man who disembowels little girls. In fact, Director Bertrand Tavernier's new film, The Judge and The Assassin, unwittingly reveals just how impossible this feat of emotional empathy is. The horror of the crime repells us; we are haunted by the image of our own face screaming in the last minutes of life. A Theodore Bundy-style murder dehumanizes the victim, turning a person into an object. Horrified yet fascinated, we devour the newspaper clippings; each gruesome detail imprints itself on our memory. We become transfixed by the terrifyingly personal nature of random...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Gross and Stupid | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...Orioles last represented the American League in the World Series in 1971, when they lost in seven games to the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Angels have not won an American League championship since they began play in 1961. In fact, last night's game was their first post-season contest of any kind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orioles Beat Angels in 10 Innings, 6-3 | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...fact, the core's products are cool enough to generate steam safely. Thomas Jones, MIT vice president for research, said yesterday the reactor body fills with hot but not scalding water. "The energy at that temperature isn't very useful, but it's very safe," he said. "In fact, if people had been energy-conscious then as they are now, we could have used the energy to heat these buildings...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: The Reactor in Cambridge's Backyard | 10/3/1979 | See Source »

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