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Word: legend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHILE OTHER STUDENTS TRUDGE between classes, libraries and dining halls, Wong leaves myth and legend in her wake. (Like Brother Blue and the Dial-A-Menu Man, she is some-thing of a campus folk hero, dashing around on her fluorescent bike.) Even during reading period, while most people hibernate in Lamont and Hilles, she manages to create excitement...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Luck and the World Smile Upon Her | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...ancient debate between Protestants and Catholics over the colonization of the Americas. For Catholics like historian James Muldoon, the (Protestant) attack on Columbus and on the subsequent missionary work of the (Catholic) church in the Americas is little more than a resurrection, a few centuries late, of the Black Legend that was a staple of anti-Catholic propaganda during the Reformation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Hail Columbus, Dead White Male | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

...with every passing day, the legend of The Ad grew stronger. A team of Widener librarians called The Crimson to settle a bet about whether The Ad was real. A friend said she saw The Ad next to someone's toilet in Winthrop House (with a caption I will refrain from mentioning here). Someone posted The Ad inside the Economics 10 Unit Test grading office...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Ad Hominem Attack | 5/1/1991 | See Source »

Today's job market is a far cry from that available in the mid-1980s, when--at least according to legend--young graduates flocked to Wall Street or Washington D.C. to grab jobs waiting to be taken...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: For Harvard Undergraduates Too, The Recession Is Taking Its Toll | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

FRANK MORGAN: A LOVESOME THING (Antilles). Ex-jailbird Morgan continues his comeback -- and feeds his legend -- with another dazzling performance on the alto sax. Up-and-coming trumpet phenomenon Roy Hargrove, 21, makes an impressive guest appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Apr. 29, 1991 | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

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