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Word: lowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high jump, Brown's Chris Vellturo copped first with a paltry leap of six feet even; Harvard nabbed the two remaining spots, earning points for a jump as low...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Thinclads Storm Past Hapless Bruins in Opener | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...available. To try to provide some kind of estimate, the INS got on the phone to colleges around the country and produced a figure of 50,000. Now the agency has combed through its files again and increased the estimate to 75,000, but even that may be too low...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Meanwhile, Trouble at Home | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...What social forms does human society pass through in its development from a low to a high stage...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Peking's Biggest Test | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...looking forward to a summer job with the Justice Department. During a routine background investigation, a question was asked that floored Bishop: "Are you living with anybody?" Her answer cost her the job. The department's rationale: cohabitation out of wedlock is "widely regarded as a sign of low character." Bishop filed suit. Last week the Justice Department signed a consent order stating that it cannot refuse to hire someone solely because he or she lives out of wedlock with a person of the opposite sex. Bishop, 33, was pleased, but the ruling did not come soon enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Briefs | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...Richmond has a sidewalk kiosk where browsers can check out bestsellers and paperbacks. "I used to be a real elitist," says Librarian Howard Smith. "But we're trying to get people to read at no matter what level." The Dallas public library lends games and dress patterns in low-income neighborhoods. Some libraries even lend gerbils and hamsters, as well as hedge trimmers and posthole diggers-a development that often upsets traditionalists. Sniffs Mrs. Chebie Bateman, library director for Columbus, Miss.: "I believe in furnishing the books and letting the hardware store furnish the tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trouble in the Stacks | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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