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Word: mannings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That's an absolute disgrace," councilor Francis Duehay '55 told the man...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City Will Ask State Help To Protect Older Tenants | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

Norman describes Tom at one point as a man who has "never had an agressive thought in his little mind." That meekness in Tom's character occasionally shows itself in Gottlieb's portrayal, most notably in the first scene. On balance, though, Gottlieb slumps through his role well, with a humourous mixture of bumbling incertitude and maddening lack of perceptiveness...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Currier's Conquests | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

...article seems rather ironic," Harvey C. Mansfield '54, professor of Government, said yesterday, "because a Harvard man does everything he can to conceal his identity out of embarassment at going to the best University...

Author: By Kenneth J. Ryan, | Title: Magazine Tells the Unblessed To Fake Harvard Credentials | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

...serious disorders, including a seemingly uncheckable algae growth that, like a fast-spreading cancer, was choking off the other forms of life. Though the remaining four of North America's great chain of lakes-Superior, Michigan, Huron and Ontario-were less diseased, they too showed symptoms of serious, man-made illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Comeback for the Great Lakes | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Large game fish are making a comeback. Virtually wiped out by overfishing, pollution and the eellike sea lamprey (an ocean predator that apparently first migrated from the Hudson River into the lakes after man had opened the way with the Erie Canal, the native lake trout is again being pulled from the lakes by sports fishermen, who now can also catch coho and chinook salmon from the Pacific Ocean. Still, despite the fact that the waters are cleaner and the lamprey has been contained by a concerted attack on its breeding ground, the game fish population can be sustained only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Comeback for the Great Lakes | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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