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Word: guiness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tiger fans, like Mills, take their orange seriously. They're proud of making the Guiness Book of World Records for releasing 363,729 orange balloons before the Tigers-Maryland footballgame in Memorial Stadium, better known as "DeathValley...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Paw-Mania | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

Even its billing in the Guiness Book of World Records as the world's tallest library was disputed by the University of Texas, which claimed that its 307-foot high tower, which houses administrative offices as well as books, is 11 feet taller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMass to Honor Mugabe; Students Fix Up Library | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

Evans said his talent for trivia goes back to his family's dinner table conversations, when his father used to ask everyone around the table trivia questions. He was also an avid reader of the Guiness Book of World Records and the Book of Lists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Takes Trivia to the Airwaves | 10/4/1984 | See Source »

Although they won't have to contact the Guiness brothers about a new world record, a group of Currier House students will sponsor a dance marathon next semester to benefit the residents of a Cambridge housing project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Currier Plans 12-Hour Dance Marathon | 12/14/1982 | See Source »

...shows nothing further underneath. Ask about nuclear--Reagan will lean forward, voice husky with sincerity and with the strain of endless campaigning. "I wish students would look into the entire problem, so they could see the refutation that is available," he says. Now expansive, leaning back, reciting Guiness-Book evidence. "Even Three Mile Island, and that was worst, had less radiation than flying coast-to-coast on an airplane. Less radiation than living at the altitude of Denver." Reassuring, even compassionate now, Reagan switches topics; he counsels young people not to protest against the draft, for it will only make...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Reagan's Last Chance | 2/16/1980 | See Source »

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