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Word: regretably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rutgers, with an assist from Princeton, began the game of football back in 1869, and has since had considerable cause to regret it. Save for 1876, which scarcely counts-Rutgers had a severely truncated schedule of one game that year-the Scarlet Knights have never gone through a season undefeated. Down through the years they scraped together a barely respectable record, just a shade over the .500 mark, and even when they did come close to a perfect season, they managed to blow their chances at the last moment. In 1960 they thundered undefeated into the final game, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Doing for Dear Old Rutgers | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...only regret that I have but five minutes in which to read the CRIMSON but the rest of the time is occupied in studying, sleeping or working on my bomb shelter. Harvard students seem to have such a talent for knowing what will happen in the next few years that it is a shame not to be able to read all their theories. They are so, so cute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE MAIL | 11/13/1961 | See Source »

...regret to say that such thinking is not only most unimaginative and unrealistic but extremely self-deceptive. We cannot (and it is sheer folly to do so) think of the next World War in terms of the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TILLICH DELUDED | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...clerical error, the CRIMSON advertised Potemkin, the first film in the M.I.T. Russian Film Festival, for Friday, Oct. 27 instead of Saturday, Oct. 23. All films in the series are on Saturday evenings. We regret the Inconvenience caused to patrons who went to M.I.T. on Friday because of our error...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APOLOGY | 10/30/1961 | See Source »

...words must have been dropped from the second edition. For years, Webster's unabridged has listed more words than any dictionary in any language. Now, because of scientific arrivistes to the English vocabulary (like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis) Webster's no longer commands the serious interest of English readers, who must forever regret the loss of the convenient one-volume compendium they once relied...

Author: By R. A. S. jr., | Title: BIG DICTIONARY | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

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