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Word: provos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found an application for Brigham Young University, the Mormon school in Provo, Utah, and sent it in "because it wasn't expensive." She was accepted, and borrowed $200 from her grandmother to get there. Her favorite class was art. Jill thought she could be "one of the great ones, painting masterpieces." The students were told to draw a barn, and the results were displayed. Jill checked them out, feeling more confident about her own gifts as she went along. Then she saw one "that shook me like wheels spinning. It was art, far better than mine. It showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs from a Loose Shingle | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...there is David Lundberg, a Provo, Utah, native and a recruit of Hackett-like proportions. Lundberg will swim in three individual events, the 200-yd. breaststroke, the 200- and 400-yd. individual medleys, and Bernal says he "has the potential to score in all three...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobm, | Title: The Rise of Harvard Swimming | 3/20/1980 | See Source »

NCAA qualifying time and new Blodgett Pool and School Record--400-yd. Individual Medley--Lundberg (H-swimming unofficially) 4:01.48. the backstroke. Although Lundberg trailed at the halfway point, the Provo, Utah, native needed only 15 yards of his specialty to leave his competitors in his wake...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Aquamen Sink Penn | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

Individual heroes should not be singled out in this contest. Lundberg, a freshman from Provo, Utah, set two school and pool records(1:51.61 in the IM and 2:00.31 for his favorite, the 200 breaststroke); Hackett established Blodgett marks in his specialities, the 200 and 500 freestyles (1:38.09 and 4:22.81); and Gauthier came through in what had been expected to be the Crimson's weakness, the sprints; but it was the emotion created by seeing each team member establishing personal best times and consistently out-dueling the highly-touted Hoosiers that carried Bernal's troops to their...

Author: By John S.bruce, | Title: Crimson Swimmers stun Indiana, 67-46 | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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