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Word: pasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the past five dual meets Princeton edged out Harvard for first, 43-34. Navy, Old Dominion and Yale finished far behind in third, fourth and fifth places, respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Netmen Win ECACs; Harvard Follows Right Behind | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson drew first blood with 18:30 remaining in the first half when Elaine Kellogg placed a Sue Field corner, and Chris Sailer rapped it past Penn goalie Sally Weaver. The Quakers played defensive hockey the rest of they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickwomen Shine, Quiet Quakers, 2-1 | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

...game marked Harvard's fourth shutout in five games; but unlike the past matches, the Crimson defense was truly tested. Also, for the first time this year--in the second half--Harvard was outshot...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Women Booters Blitz Brown; Harvard Remains Undefeated | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

...they are living the first part of their lives for a second time or, as one writes, that "biography like history may re-enact itself as farce." Stasis reigns, history is not Viconian cycles or Yeatsian gyres but the thumbscrew. On this subject, the correspondents begin to correspond: "The past is a holding tank from which time's wastes recirculate . . . History really is that bird you [Barth] mention somewhere, who flies in ever diminishing circles until it disappears up its own fundament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost in the Funhouse | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Pentagon has belatedly moved to meet one of the minor complaints-that pregnant women who outgrow their uniforms undermine morale by appearing at work in civvies. The Air Force and Navy have introduced maternity uniforms over the past 18 months. (The Navy sells them; the Air Force gives them away.) The Army will not get around to approving a design until next spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: The Military Is Pregnant | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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