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Word: framings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schulman and Kunichika adjusted their game by abandoning the net in favor of the baseline. With the help of consistent groundstrokes, strong defensive play and patience, the Crimson duo came back to take the first set, faltered during the second, and then recovered in time to win the third frame and the match...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Netwomen Top Penn St.; Evans, Schulman Shine | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

Galatia (pop. 1,023) sits alongside the two-lane tarmac of Highway 34 in Southern Illinois like hips on a snake. Barely. There is a cluster of neat single-story frame houses, a couple of eating places, a bank, a gas station and small supermarket. A lone yellow blinker slows traffic a little. But few outsiders ever stop, and that is fine with Galatians, who have better things to do than chat. They raise corn, graze cattle and dig coal for a living. "Until lately," drawls one miner, "two dogs crossing the road at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: The Ghost of John L. Lewis | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

Where he lives is a rambling wood frame house near the Loeb Drama Center. Built for a large family in a style now obsolete, the house seems a bit hollow without the four (now grown) children who used to live there or the students who meet there once a week to talk about creative writing. The comfortable, lived-in part is the back, where current fiction (Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino) and current periodicals (The Paris Review, the Nation) lie about and are read. This is where Monroe Engel teaches, writes and, one presumes, takes his sundry nutrients...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Monroe Engel | 9/24/1981 | See Source »

Author and Literary Critic Edwin H. Cady spoke for the library. The opponents, he suggested, were viewing the issue in too narrow a time frame. Said Sanford, echoing Cady: "The opposition of the moment will be overcome by the long-range benefit to scholarship, and that's what a university is all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Those Bedeviled Blue Devils | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...taking a tax deduction for business use. Erie Homeowner Francis Banderet, a construction and farm equipment dealer, sees to his far-flung clients' needs by plane. Robert McDaniels, a retired airline pilot who lives in Naper Aero, near Chicago, owns four planes. One is a 1917 wooden-frame Jenny; another is a two-seater he uses to give flying lessons at a nearby airfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Home Is Where the Hangar Is | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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