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Word: raring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bate is best known among Harvard students for English 140b, his extremely popular course on the literature of the late 18th century. "Mr. Bate blends a real knowledge of the subject with an ability to express it well, which is quite rare," said Joel A. Bando, a grader for 140b...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker and Lino D. Tontodonato, S | Title: W. J. Bate Suffers Stroke; Engell to Give English 140b | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...freshman crop is led by breastroker Adele Joel, who has already set one pool record. Breastrokers have been a rare breed for the women's swim team and her arrival will give the swimmers much needed depth. "We finally have a breastroker, after three years of trying," Walsh exulted yesterday...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Two Squads Set to Compete | 11/28/1978 | See Source »

...American today to list five words with which he would describe himself. It is rare that Republican or Democrat will be on the list. In fact, a sizable number of candidates in this fall's campaign displayed an amazing reticence about letting the voters know what their party was; the affiliation was widely regarded as either an encumbrance or an irrelevance. In New Jersey, a voter reading one key piece of Senatorial Candidate Jeffrey Bell's literature could not have told whether he was running as a Republican or a Rosicrucian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Decline of the Parties | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...Consumer Product Safety Commission's 1974 ban on the use as a propellant of vinyl chloride, shown to be the cause of a rare form of liver cancer, from a host of aerosol products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Valuable Gadfly | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...foreign tourists and businessmen-including 15,000 Americans?will visit China, and next year the total could double. What most visitors bring back, besides snapshots of the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs, are horror stories about the accommodations. Hotel rooms are hard to get, ah" conditioning is rare, and such Western amenities as bars, saunas and swimming pools are all but unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Intercontinental Checks into China | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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