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Word: provenances (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last two weeks for different kinds of people, for a new face. Jimmy has high respect for Turner." This sentiment seems to be shared by the admiral's service colleagues, who admire his intellectual breadth, capacity for hard work and -what may be most important to the President-proven skills as a manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTELLIGENCE: An Admiral for Superspook? | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...truth of the matter is you're just more comfortable without so many clothes on," Carroll E. Wood, professor of Biology, said yesterday. "Actually we haven't proven an exact biological explanation for spring fever. Perhaps it's a lingering primeval mating urge...

Author: By Wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Unusually Warm Weather Upsets Students' Hormones | 2/11/1977 | See Source »

Employees who have had experience with the union view it with a more "jaundiced eye," because they have seen that many of the union's charges have proven untrue, Rabkin said...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Beth Israel Workers Vote Down Union, But Results Encourage Local Organizer | 2/8/1977 | See Source »

...sharply defined, bass tones are rich and highs are scintillating. Sound loses itself in the infinity of space. A leap of imagination and one could be transported past the Pleiades, meditating on some barren asteroid and watching the comets streak by. The synthetic mode lends itself, as Bowie has proven in the past, to evoking the outer space reality in which much of his music dwells. Low is an unexpected break toward an entirely new form of rock...

Author: By J.t. Defenderfer, | Title: Is Aladdin Sane? | 2/2/1977 | See Source »

Charles Ray and Joyce Grant worked together when Grant was director of alternative services at the University of Massachusetts, and one of her programs involved working at Roxbury High. Their proven ability to work together, Grant said, plus her 16 years working in various capacities with Boston schools, were probably the reasons Harvard tapped her. Charles Ray, a soft spoken man, is unpreturbed by Harvard's strong influence in the project's direction. "Joyce Grant," he says, "has a better understanding of people in high school than anyone here, including...

Author: By Warren W. Ludwig, | Title: Roxbury/Harvard | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

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