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Word: markedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Harvard lacrosse program took a big step backwards Saturday, losing to a mediocre Yale team, 13-10. While the Crimson stickmen have dropped some contests in the last few years they might have won, Saturday's rainy debacle marked the first time since Bob Scalise became coach that the...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Bulldogs Stun Laxmen, 13-10 | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

That A Place to Come To works as well as it does is largely due to Warren's poetic mastery of language. While his diction is less lush than Faulkner's his syntax less consistently run-on, he possesses a marked gift for penning phrases laden with metaphorical richness. His...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: A Place To Come To | 4/23/1977 | See Source »

Yale was the first college in the country to have a golf team. It was organized by John Reid Jr. His father had founded the first golf club in the United States in Ardsley, N.Y., borrowing the illustrious name of the St. Andrews Golf Club. A dinner at the Reid...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The Big Three Through Its Long Tradition | 4/23/1977 | See Source »

About 3300 Americans (most of whom were party members, Nelson says) went to aid the republicans. The volunteers, all young, single men, left the U.S. with passports marked "Not Valid for Spain," because of the U.S. neutralist policy.

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Courage When It Counted | 4/22/1977 | See Source »

It turns out that Mary was quite a prodigious writer herself, having taken pen to paper at every emotional juncture in her life. Various manuscripts of hers, that have immortalized women written in Latin, English, and French, were recently set to music by Priscilla Chapman '67 who will conduct the...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Odd Notes | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

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