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Word: grades (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since she enrolled in music school in third grade, music has been a large part of her life, she says, and at Harvard, where she practices four to five hours a day, her classes are often relegated to the status of extracurriculars...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: A Romantic Interlude | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

Improvement played a big part of Mohler's earlybasketball career. Although he also played hockeyand baseball; Mohler decided to opt for basketballon the advice of a grade-school coach...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Big Man, Big Stand | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...sixth grade, my basketball coach toldme I would be 6-ft., 8-in., and that I should playbasketball," Mohler says. "So, I tried out for histeam...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Big Man, Big Stand | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

However, basketball became her new passion in sixth grade after she started playing with girls her own age--and dominating them...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Breezing Toward Another Ivy Banner | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...grade schoolers all across the country, the sky has begun to poke its way into the classroom. At Boston's Josiah Quincy School, Pat Keohane's first- graders play an animated game of hangman, filling in seven blanks that form the word cumulus. In Pittsburgh local Meteorologist Brian Sussman creates mini-planetariums for fifth-graders by piercing the shape of the Big Dipper on the bottom of plastic cups. In a fifth-grade classroom at the Hillside School in Needham, Mass., students think up celestial similes: trees become the "roots of the sky"; sunlight is "butter pouring through a hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: When The Sky's the Limit | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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