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Word: preps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard basketball coach Tom Sanders doesn't have this job. This is college hoop, The Ivy League, and the pro draft--not Pencey Prep, the YMCA and The Most Improved Camper Award. But for some strange reason I didn't feel like I was watching a competitive college basketball team out there last night in Harvard's 82-61 loss to Penn. Just a group of "outstanding young men" going through the motions and trying to finish a ho-hum, well-what-can-I-say type of season...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Making Do And Doing Nothing | 2/19/1977 | See Source »

First came the even-numbered matches (for those of you who didn't go to prep school a squash match is divided into two halves, with even-ranked players opening the show), in which Captain Bill Kaplan, Mark Panarese, Ken Ehrlich and Bob Blake showed Amherst the true meaning of the word rout...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Racquetmen Squash Amherst | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

HANOVER, N.H.--Oh wow. That's about all that you can say after spending the better part of a day here in this prep school-like atmosphere, this babe-in-the-woods of an Ivy institution. No, on second thought, you can say more. Like, oh wow, am I glad that I don't have to spend four years in Hanover...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Tears for Some Clowns | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

...summer retreat near Los Angeles where college-age Jewish youths are taught Hebrew culture and religion; of kidney disease; in Westlake, Calif. Born in the Ukraine, Bardin emigrated in 1919 to Palestine, where he founded a technical high school. At his death he had completed plans for a Jewish prep school on the Brandeis Institute grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 31, 1976 | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...stickmen open fire on Naval Academy Prep on Saturday...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Andover Thrashes Freshman Lacrosse, 6-4; Defeat Plummets Stickmen's Record To 1-4 | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

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