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Word: lesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sledgehammer. Most important is the question of motivation. Faced with the fact of their mother's corpse and the fear of being dispersed as orphans by the authorities, the children act not out of evil but according to the relentless logic of expediency. What they do is less a comment on them than on the hairbreadth that separates the civilized from the unspeakable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home Burial | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...Faculty meeting on teaching (among other things) are not to be blamed--too much--if they come to the conclusion that the Faculty does not really care much for the subject. Had they other sources of information about the meeting, however, they might well have found such a conclusion less compelling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Different Recollection | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...Less than a minute into the third, after Lau twice stopped Dave Stoyanovich (Steve's brother) on the doorstep, right winger Gene Purdy brought the Crimson to within one as he broke in alone off a fine feed from Bob McDonald, swerved left and backhanded the puck past all-ECAC netminder Ian Harrison...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard Rally at RPI Fails; Icemen Lose, 6-5, in Overtime | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...icemen from Troy broke through in the second period for another two-goal outburst. RPI grabbed a 3-2 lead at 9:04 on a goal by junior right winger Ronn Tomassoni. A Crimson defensive lapse gave the Engineers their fourth goal less than two minutes later. Slack, in control of the puck behind the Harvard net, spotted Pete DeCenzo completely unguarded in the slot. DeCenzo didn't hesitate in rapping Slack's set-up past Lau's left side...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard Rally at RPI Fails; Icemen Lose, 6-5, in Overtime | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Keenan said that Kraus's main projects, including the use of computers in financial aid and admissions, "are more or less finished now" and his assistants can take over...

Author: By Corcoran H. Byrne and Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, S | Title: Kraus Gets New Position In GSAS Reorganization | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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