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Word: round (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even if Harvard owns this building, your student ID will not allow you immediate access into the center's research facilities. Library privileges are available only by special arrangement with the center's director, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies Robert W. Thompson. However, the collections are open year round to the public (2-5pm every day except Monday), as are the gardens (2-6pm). the center is located at 1703 32nd Street, NW in Washington...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: The Sun Seldom Sets On Harvard's Empire | 3/25/1987 | See Source »

...playing games with each other again, and the majority is saying "play nicely now children." Every sixth grader knows that intelligent free speech is important. We only wish the appearance of South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown was an example of it. Instead it is the latest round in the ongoing left-right squabble. The Conservative Club brings in a speaker to mouth the same old lines. The liberals protest with the same old slogans...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: The Kent-Brown Speech | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

Squabbling by posturing and repeating stale lines does not add much to any discussions of politics or values. To be meaningful, free speech should not be trivial. The latest round in the squabble over South Africa is simply petty...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: The Kent-Brown Speech | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

...chases do linger on, and red-neck ribaldry can pale after a while, and maybe Glen shouldn't have to run smack into a cactus. But who can blame the Coens for blowing up their tale into conventionally funny shapes? Besides, as the brothers demonstrate at the climax, round is funny too. And more than a little poignant. The plot circles back to the quints' nursery, and then to the McDonnoughs' bedroom, where Hi has the strangest dream he dare consider. It is a vision into the future perfect, of middle-class stability and continuity, of a purloined child growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rootless People RAISING ARIZONA | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

After a painful round of layoffs, CBS News staffers debate whether the network has just trimmed fat or done itself serious harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

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