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Word: finall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some say that the hardest thing about Harvard is getting in. Others might argue that isn't necessarily true. After all, classes and final exams are certainly difficult, but it is a fact that the Harvard admissions game is a complicated one, involving not only the applicant but scores of other concerned people as well...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Admissions Process Is Diverse, Complex | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

...least three people read itbefore coming to any acceptance decision. Oneperson, who represents the applicant's region,serves as an advocate for the people from thatarea, and is also a member of a subcommittee,which, depending on the number and quality of theapplicants from an area, makes recommendations tothe final decision committee...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Admissions Process Is Diverse, Complex | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

...land of the Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA Finals and the Final Four successfully host the world's most popular championship in cities where soccer fields number less than minituare golf courses...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: America and the Cup | 7/6/1988 | See Source »

...talked about such behavior in my Latin American history class freshman year, and I guess I could just never accept such things as true. I had written essay question after essay question on my final exam on that very subject, the PRI's manipulation of the public, but the facts had never sunk in until then...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Mexico City Prepares for Election; Citizens Skeptical About Vote | 7/6/1988 | See Source »

...might be seen through the lens of Walker Evans or told by a New England Tennessee Williams. Morris often seems more absorbed by the manipulation of language, cadence and humor than by the dreadful case at hand. Like a backwoods balladeer, she moves quickly to the final playing out of a tragedy about people whose weird lives have been pushed to the limit by genes, cultural circumstance and a witch's spell cast by the devastating author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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