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Word: less (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategy worked for 88 minutes-Reilly and the Crimson defense fended off several dangerous Dartmouth attacks. But the Big Green finally tallied with less than two minutes remaining to edge Harvard, 1-0, in front of 150 fans...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Big Green Blanks Women Booters, 1-0 | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...been a musician for all his professional life and a singer for more than a decade. From his first big-time gig, playing piano in the Ice Follies band, to his current in-concert, one-man musical parody of The Wizard of Oz, he has never settled for anything less than unique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Beat Box with Four Octaves | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...brewing and restaurant giant (1987 revenues: $10 billion), made a surprise $5.2 billion takeover bid for the Doughboy's company. Pillsbury is resisting the offer, but at $60 a share, it may be too good for stockholders to refuse. The bid sent Pillsbury stock, which had traded at less than $40, soaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recipe for A Takeover | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...best journalists, like the best scientists, turn their lives into acts of discovery. If Three Scientists and Their Gods gives us a hint into the meaning of human life, it is less in the facts it presents, than the investigative process the book both describes and represents. The search itself has given meaning to the lives of the three scientists and indeed, to the life of their biographer: amid their many differences in interests, ideal and temperament, this god of discovery and restless seeking informs all their lives...

Author: By Charles N.W. Keckler, | Title: In the Country of the Blind... | 10/15/1988 | See Source »

...less political than Allende's last two novels, which decry the military dictatorship in the author's native land, Eva Luna protests abuses of power and corruption in a South American nation which one takes to be Venezuela. But her political commentary takes a different, more subtle tack here...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Politics and Fantasy in South America | 10/15/1988 | See Source »

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