Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into Schreiber in Cambridge in 1969, she'd have newer guessed she'd be writing sports for The Times ten years later. She picked up her undergraduate degree in 1967 from Rice and an M.A. from Stanford the next year. Then Schreiber came east in search of a Harvard Ph.D. From 1969 to 1974, she was a doctoral candidate in the English Department, leading sections in English 76 and teaching seminars about William Faulkner. She'd finished up all her required course work, passed her oral exams, and was two-thirds of the way through her dissertation. Dissertation...
...Isles have the home-ice advantage. The best trio of defensemen in hockey (Robinson, Lapointe and Savard), solid goalkeeping from Kenny Dryden, who practices law in his spare time, and the most balanced attack you'll ever see combine to make this squad the force to reckon with in search of Lord Stanley's $48 mug (purchased...
...search of ways to beat the oil-import bind, some policymakers are beginning to look at an idea for motor fuel that was tried by American farmers in the 1930s: a mixture of 90% gasoline and 10% alcohol known as gasohol. Already it is selling briskly at about 500 filling stations in the Midwest Plains states, where the corn from which alcohol is commonly made is abundant. The blend is hailed by its champions as a wonder that yields about the same mileage as unleaded gasoline and offers an ever renewable source of energy. Moreover, gasohol could, if it replaced...
...necessary to enter Carl Jung's collective unconscious and search among primordial archetypes (the great mother, the old man) that supposedly lurk there. It seems reasonable enough to suppose that Americans test the looks of would-be Presidents against an accumulating folkloric archetype, a fluid and ambiguous composite formed of several diverse figures...
Dick Arnos, however, subbing at six due to injuries to Scott Walker and Jim Curley, won an equally important straight-setter. And five-man Greg Kirsch avenged his loss to Jon Wall of a year ago by search-and-destroying the Middie, 6-2, 6-1. The victory gave the red-hot Kirsch a weekend total of 29 games won, 10 lost...