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Word: pasting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Society boasts 200 alums (all past varsity, junior varsity, and freshman goalies are eligible for membership) and 20 honorary members, including Dean Rosovsky, a hockey fanatic. About 70 members show up for the Society's meeting and dinner each year...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Canterbury Tales: | 2/8/1979 | See Source »

Most of the fellows contacted expressed an interest in conducting freshman seminars, a choice which has been popular among Mellon Fellows in the past, Hunt said...

Author: By Janet S. Walker, | Title: Committee Announces Mellon Fellows for 1979; Winners Plan to Teach Wide Variety of Seminars | 2/8/1979 | See Source »

...sifted through all the documents and some 4,000 surviving Conrad letters, including 1,500 never published. The blank spaces left in this portrait are probably there for good. Conrad covered his tracks carefully, destroying letters written to him, telling different correspondents contradictory anecdotes and romantically reshaping his past in published memoirs. Lengthy segments of his life vanished, like the wake of a ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Outcast of the Islands | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...French, then English) the way others don disguises. He made himself an outcast well before the age of alienation. But the decision in his mid-30s to settle in England and become a writer meant an end to running. Countless thousands of miles had carried him smack into the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Outcast of the Islands | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

According to the Book of Genesis, the universe began in a single, flashing act of creation; the divine intellect willed all into being, ex nihilo. It is not surprising that scientists have generally stayed clear of the question of ultimate authorship, of the final "uncaused cause." In years past, in fact, they held to the Aristotelian idea of a universe that was "ungenerated and indestructible," with an infinite past and an infinite future. This was known as the Steady State theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: In the Beginning: God and Science | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

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