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Word: losses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loss puts the J.V. record at 2-2. The squad opened its season with victories against Exeter and a touring team from the London Business School, before losing to a highly-touted Massasoit Community College team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minutemen Thwart J.V. Booters, 2-1 | 10/5/1978 | See Source »

...booters tried a new alignment yesterday--four fullbacks, four halfbacks and two strikers--but the result was the same. Another Crimson loss...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Whether 2-4-4 or 4-3-3, It Still Equals Zero | 10/5/1978 | See Source »

Both remain confident that they haven't lost their shooting touch. Yet they are bewildered. "I'm not sure of the reason," Nelson said before yesterday's loss. "We don't seem to be sure where the other person is at any given time...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Whether 2-4-4 or 4-3-3, It Still Equals Zero | 10/5/1978 | See Source »

...liberal arts, where students know that few jobs await them upon graduation, the loss of students to more "practical" courses is greatest, and the consequent need to find new recruits is most urgent. For a professor, aggressive salesmanship is "just the beginning of what will be a very major development in the 1980s," predicts Clark Kerr, chairman of the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education. "Teachers are only just beginning to realize that there is a tremendous pool of buying power among students for electives." Of course there is nothing new in students evaluating their professors. Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hard Sell for Higher Learning | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...slow flooding of the Nile Valley southward from Aswan's High Dam drowned many Egyptian-built temples and, in effect, the whole of ancient Lower Nubia. But instead of a total loss, the result has been something of a windfall. For the threat inspired 30 expeditions from 25 countries to excavate frantically ahead of the advancing waters, turning up a largesse of Nubian finds that gave added weight to a long held thesis: that Nubia, which extended 1,000 miles south of Aswan in what is now Egypt and the Sudan, had a rich culture as early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Light on a Dark Kingdom | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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