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Word: petering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coach Peter Huntsman reshuffled his boat several times, and the women in black bedeviled Williams and Cornell; but they never could triumph over the Terriers...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, Nell Scovell, and Jeffrey R. Toobin ., S | Title: More Frustration Than Elation | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...women's cross country squads sweep in the Greater Boston Championship meets. Senior Peter Fitzsimmons and sophomore Anne Sullivan each grab second-place finishes in their divisions...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, Nell Scovell, and Jeffrey R. Toobin ., S | Title: More Frustration Than Elation | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

Veteran distance men Eddie Sheehan, Peter Fitzsimmons and Mark Meyer capped their Harvard careers in a typically steady manner. The sprinters pulled off some stellar surprises in the face of debilitating injuries; but the jumpers, except for the superlative Stiles, had a disappointing season...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, Nell Scovell, and Jeffrey R. Toobin ., S | Title: More Frustration Than Elation | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...Baccalaureate Service also included readings by Robin B. Balthrope '79, Katie Forsman '79, Gary M. Barrett'79, Barbara A. Mullin '79 and Michael R. Eastman '79, as well as various hymns, and an invocation by Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and minister in Memorial Church...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: Bok, Horner Speak at Baccalaureate | 6/6/1979 | See Source »

...Elkin's Heaven? A celestial froth of every storybook cliché. It is a theme park of pearly gates, angels with harps, ambrosia, manna, a Heavenly choir that sings, "Oh dem golden slippers" and a St. Peter who answers a would-be club member's wonderment with a snobby "We like it." Peter is not entirely accurate. There are lonely child musicians whom God has untimely plucked because he likes a tune now and then. And there are tensions in the best of families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life After Afterlife | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

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