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Word: pools (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard applicant pool's behavior follows a nationwide pattern. The total number of students applying to medical schools in this country has been declining since 1974-75, dropping almost 10 per cent this year from last year, according to Association of American Medical Colleges statistics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med School Applications Decline Here, Nationally | 4/7/1978 | See Source »

George ended up by flicking cigar ash on Pat's white shoes. Pat responded by throwing George in the swimming pool. Burns is suing, but Boone says he was just trying to baptize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oscar Beats the Odds | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...have a decision to be made here." That decision is whether or not to continue to blindly pursue our rather dubious war goals. It is a question, of course, that runs thoughout the movie, right from the opening scene in which a bunch of handicapped vets, lounging around a pool table, are discussing whether they'd go again if they had the chance to do it over. One guy explains why he would, much to the disbelief of his companions, and much of the rest of the movie is devoted to showing why his reasons, and the assumptions behind them...

Author: By Bob Grady, | Title: 'Nam Goes to the Movies | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...expected, freshman standout Bobby Hackett led the Crimson cruise through Long Beach's Belmont Plaza Pool. The Yonkers flash placed in three individual events, and combined with teammates Malcolm Cooper, Julian Mack and Michael Coglin to grab the twelfth spot in the 800-yd. freestyle relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Swim Team 15th at NCAAs | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

THIRTY SUMMERS AGO, the owner of a Jewish resort in the Catskills hired a skinny, crazy kid named Mel to amuse the middle-aged couples lounging around the swimming pool. That proprietor could hardly have known it, but in hiring that kid he unleashed a comic force of staggering proportions upon the Borscht Belt and eventually, the rest of the world. Mel Brooks was plainly crazy. He would do anything to get a laugh, and while his written gags frequently bore the stamp of genius, he often resorted to simply slapstick or "dirty" words. Either way, audiences loved...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Standard Anxiety | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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