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Word: means (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard challenged Dartmouth the entire game. In the preseason, most observers dismissed the Crimson. Last night wasn't supposed to mean anything...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: Women Cagers Fall to Dartmouth, 65-62 | 3/8/1989 | See Source »

Stanford has informed the management of Webb Ranch that it must correct housing deficiencies like ill-maintained, unheated and overcrowded cabins, Vartain said. But he added that these instructions do not mean the university assumes legal responsibility for the conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stanford Union Sues University | 3/7/1989 | See Source »

...mean streets they are known as "strawberries," young women, usually prostitutes, who trade sex for drugs. Since August 1985 police have discovered the bodies of at least nine strawberries; each woman had been shot to death with a small-caliber handgun. Last week lawmen found a suspect in the serial killings. In a twist right out of a lurid TV movie, he turned out to be a sheriff's deputy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: Strawberry Suspect | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...Does that mean, then, that poor black kids should not look up to someone who comes out of a similar background and is enormously successful in athletics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with HARRY EDWARDS : Fighting From the Inside | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

Shopping for socks used to mean dragging one's threadbare feet to the most obscure corner of the department store. No more: socks have come to the storefront. From London to New York City to Los Angeles, hundreds of quick- stop sock shops are sprouting up all over, purveying hip leg wear to a crowd of hurried shoppers. The sock emporiums typically offer attentive service and an eccentric inventory of hose adorned with happy faces, world maps, tie-dyed patterns, jack-o'-lanterns and even Scottie-dog appliques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sock It to Me! | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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