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Word: float (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journey into Wasinngton, D.C. There 1,000 parisinoners and Episcopalian friends board a chartered excursion boat and float down the Potomac to celebrate the Resurrection with a sunrise Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Closing a Clerical Show | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

McKinney aid he would "float" the new tuition proposal--which has not been made public yet--among GSAS administrators and then would send it on to the Committee on Fellowships and Other Aids and the Committee on Graduate Education for discussion...

Author: By Sydney P. Freedberg, | Title: An Attempt To Cut Down On the Ghosts | 10/19/1974 | See Source »

...successful trip of these bottles, which were designed to float like logs, shows that logs from North American rivers could have carried organisms across the Atlantic Ocean, Howard B. Fell, professor of Invertebrate Zoology and leader of the seminar, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second Marine Biology Bottle Recovered Near French Coast | 10/15/1974 | See Source »

...Flemish tapestry: A paratrooper lands on a partridge and carries the dead bird with him: half talisman, half future meal. A British colonel calls his men to him with a copper hunting horn. Bagpipes play Blue Bonnets. The inmates of a bombed mental institution, clad in white robes, float through the surrounding woods like ghosts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Airborne Nightmare | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...Quick Profit. What gave Moses even more power was the fact that the city was going broke. Because Triborough had money-an endless stream of toll receipts-the authority could float new bonds and become New York's big builder. Powerful men came as suppliants to Moses. Leaders of the building trades unions wanted jobs-thousands of jobs. Moses could provide them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Book Of Moses | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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