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Word: samuels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kneeling and digging and weeding seems to have an equally salutary effect on the human spirit. "He who would have beautiful roses in his garden," wrote the great rosarian Samuel Reynolds Hole in 1869, "must have beautiful roses in his heart." To wait as long as three years for trilliums to bloom requires considerable fortitude; to rise early and weed builds discipline; to construct a garden in one's mind in the dead of winter fosters purity of thought. "Sometimes what you do is for others," muses Designer Oscar de la Renta, who has transformed a Connecticut horse farm into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paradise Found: America Returns to the Garden | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...Iranian troops were routed; 3,000 were killed, wounded or captured. A day after the Fao disaster, Iranian naval forces clashed in the gulf with U.S. ships that had just demolished Iran's offshore oil platform near Sirri Island in retaliation for mine damage done to the frigate U.S.S. Samuel B. Roberts. The engagement cost Iran six ships, including two of its four frigates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Iran on the Defensive | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...much-anticipated move, Wood presented a proposal calling for total divestment at the Board's December meeting. After the meeting, Board President Samuel C. Butler '51 said that the Overseers would likely consider the proposal for total divestment at the February meeting...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Divestment Activists Stymied at Meetings | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...Generally it's a good deal for the investment banks to get very bright and educated young people who are for the most part willing to work long hours," says Samuel L. Hayes, Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at the Business School...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Second Thoughts About Wall Street? | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...best and most interesting theater on campus came from outside the College. A troupe of Irish university student actors began their American tour by treating Harvard audiences to strong, unorthodox performances of four plays by modern Irish dramatists, including J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: The Changing of the Avant-Garde | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

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