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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Plainly, a world that feeds on such impenetrable figures suffers a peculiar compulsion that might be called googolmania The hunger is, whatever else, a marvel to behold, providing the spectacle of a species unable to solve a 13% inflation rate, yet eager to be informed by the Guinness Book of World Records that the world weighs 6,585,600,000,000,000,000,000 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Getting Dizzy by the Numbers | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...about man kind. It is both sign and cause of man's long trek from the days of one, two, three, many. It can be taken as a symptom of exuberant joy in the quantity and multiplicity of things. Still, the dizzy acceptance of those truly incomprehensible figures might also be construed as a vicarious variation of the old Faustian game: the yearning to know the unknowable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Getting Dizzy by the Numbers | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...score became 2-0 with 25:02 remaining on the clock as Harvard tallied a goal that might have been called "While Tigers Sleep." John Sanacore took a free kick from the left-wing and an apparently unmarked Michael Smith raced towards the far post to direct a beautiful diving header just inside the post...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Booters Shut Out Tigers, 2-0 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...everybody, Tiger coach Frank Navarro elected to go for the first, which Van Pelt picked up with a yard to spare. "The offense felt we could make it," Navarro explained later. "We've been having trouble with out snaps on kicks and I was concerned with the effect it might have on the team to get that close and come away with no points having tried a field goal when we were that close to the first down...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Crimson Gridders Drop Fifth Straight | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...support that the PLO has at all is genuine, if they silence any and all dissension in their ranks, as in the case of the Palestinian religious official in Gaza who was shot 27 times last spring only because he intimated that may be the peace treaty might not be such a bad thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLO: Not A-OK | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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