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Word: knowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United States has violated human rights to such an extent that it cannot rightfully protest Vietnam's treatment of its refugees, William M. Kunstler, the attorney best known for his defense of the "Chicago Seven," said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Activist Lawyer Criticizes U.S. For Violating Human Rights | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

These were the days of Carter Ford and Mike Lehman, who tested and modified the Interclub dinghy, which now can be found in almost every college fleet; and George Oday '44, who became a well-known boat builder and sailed in the Olympic games...

Author: By David R. Merner, | Title: They're Makin' Waves in the Charles | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

...English Puritans who settled Massachusetts and established their capital seat at Boston were not known for their solicitude towards the Bishop of Rome. Themselves heirs of the English Reformation, their memories of the Papacy and the Marian persecutions were annotated by the standard work found in all of their libraries, John Fox's Acts and Monuments, commonly called The Book of Martyrs. First published in 1563 in English, The Book of Martyrs with its vivid, even lurid accounts of the sufferings unto death of Protestant martyrs at the hands of the Church of Rome and Bloody Mary served to remind...

Author: By Peter J. Gomes, | Title: Puritan Boston Prepares For the Polish Pontiff | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

...Dudley (A.B. 1690), Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, Overseer of Harvard College, Fellow of the Royal Society, left to the President and Fellows of the college a bequest of 133 pounds, 6 shillings, and 8 pence for the establishment of a series of annual lectures to be known as the Dudleian Lectures...

Author: By Peter J. Gomes, | Title: Puritan Boston Prepares For the Polish Pontiff | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

...Dylan is saying something very different, then he is singing in much the same way. When he belts out "Shine Your Light," the album's most inspired tune, he could be singing "Hard Rain." But Dylan falls below the usual quality of his well-known calls of the wild. In the same song, his nasal vocals are so strained his voice sounds like a parody of itself. The closest Dylan gets to his familiar tone is on the title track--the most political of the album's songs. But just when it sounds like the old Dylan, with angry lyrics...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: The Gospel According to Bob | 9/26/1979 | See Source »

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