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Word: mentioning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Burgess, who use language to make their livings. Since its completion in 1928, exactly 71 years after it was proposed at a meeting of the Philological Society in London, the OED has stood as the ultimate authority on the tongue of Shakespeare and the King James Bible, not to mention the language of tradespeople and the slang of the streets. Relatively few speakers of English consulted it, to be sure; but many were reassured by the knowledge that it, an Everest of scholarship, was there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Scholarly Everest Gets Bigger | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...addition to the team win, Harvard also dominated the individual standings. Ten of the top 50 individual places went to Harvard students. Six others earned Honorable Mention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Students Place First in Math Contest | 3/23/1989 | See Source »

...market process of your own system to the point of excluding the very word market from any discussion of our country. A market can be a capitalist or a socialist one, but it is still a market. So here we have wasted a lot of time, not to mention all that has been sacrificed and the people and the resources we have lost. Also, the system of leveled-down wages has led to a loss of interest in their work on the part of both workers and managers. Let's say that somebody has set a record, has fulfilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with BORIS YELTSIN: One Bear Of a Soviet Politician: | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

When people notice that a group of minorities are sitting together, they often neglect to mention that there are many more tables with whites seated separately. The all-white tables are "normal", but, for some reason, the all-Black or all-Chicano tables...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Hardly Self-Segregation | 3/18/1989 | See Source »

Cavuoti, an honorable mention All-America in his freshman year, will probably draw the league's top defenders and "hatchetmen" this season. However, Garvey's return to an already strong midfield featuring Dodge and Co-Captain Robert Griffith should provide the short-stickers with a new dimension on attack...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Laxmen Living in the Land of Parity | 3/17/1989 | See Source »

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