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Word: shaw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their attempts to follow this [the Nugan Hand investigation] up, Australian investigators questioned their star Nugan Hand witness, George Shaw, who recalled dealings within a Sydney outfit called the Loy Arms Corporation. Shaw hadn't been involved in the details. But Loy's proprietor, Kevin Joseph Loy, acknowledged he had been approached by Wilhelmus Hans on behalf of Nugan Hand. In fact, a search of Loy's records produced copies of a weapons import permit from South Africa, dated September 18, 1975, another import permit from Singapore dated November 4, and an Australian export permit dated November 10--all involving...

Author: By Whitney A. Bower, | Title: Spooky Tales | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

Then there are the funny "idea" statistics. There are 245 one-liners in an average Henny Youngman monologue. (0.4 percent of which involve the taking of his wife.) At today's rates, George Bernard Shaw ran up a $50,000 postal bill in his lifetime. Chicago's libraries have 7500 copies of Catcher in the Rye outstanding...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Untrivial Pursuits | 11/3/1987 | See Source »

...Hall 6 3 Mather House 6 4 Matthews Hall 6 3 Mower Hall 6 3 North House 56 Linnean St. 7 5 Walker #60 60 Walker St. 8 5 Pennypacker Hall 6 3 Perkins Hall 7 1 Quincy House 6 3 Richards Hall 7 1 Rockefeller Hall 7 2 Shaw Hall 7 1 Stoughton Hall 6 3 Straus Hall 6 3 Story Hall 7 1 Thayer Hall 6 3 Weld Hall 6 3 Wigglesworth Hall 6 3 Winthrop House 6 3 Wyeth Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where Harvard Votes | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

Perhaps the most enjoyable bits of Shakespearean lore center on critical judgments made by G.B. Shaw and Samuel Pepys. He also possesses a great gift for evoking the hustle and bustle of Shakespeare's London and the Globe Theatre...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: No Holds Bard | 9/17/1987 | See Source »

...Reagan Administration quickly applauded the move, urging "continued reform and the development of democratic institutions and processes." Taipei echoed Washington's optimism. Predicted Government Spokesman Shaw Yu-ming: "We will achieve full democracy by the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taiwan Thirty-Eight Years Later . . . | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

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