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Word: signs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rusie, the famed "Hoosier Thunderbolt" of the 1890s, died in 1942. He won more than 30 games a season three times and has a winning percentage of .603. Rusie was also the first major leaguer ever to sit out a season over a contract dispute, as he refused to sign with the Giants...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The Player Who Didn't Make It to Cooperstown | 2/12/1977 | See Source »

...Thou shalt not schedule any courses in which the professor gives a real lecture on the first day. A bad sign right off the bat. The opening lecture is for important things like seeing how many people you know in the room. Nobody wants to take notes until after Washington's Birthday at the earliest...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Thou Shalt Think Now, So as Not to Be Sorry Later | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...with a peanut lei and two peanut bracelets: "My granddaddy told me that hell would freeze over before we'd have a Southerner as President. Well, I just heard that Washington is frozen." Joseph Wiley Reid, who described himself as a "cousin of Jimmy way back," carried a sign reading, FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST! GOD ALMIGHTY, THE WHITE PEOPLE AND THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH ARE FREE AT LAST. JAN. 20, 1977 AT 12:01. At the bar car's piano, a singer named Carmelita hammered out endless repetitions of Dixie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: BOUND FOR FUN-AND GLORY | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

Magee said his firm "offers information for everybody and anybody," and requires customers to sign a statement that they will not use the research results to defraud any college or university...

Author: By Erik J. Dahl, | Title: Termpaper Firm to Operate in Boston, Claiming State Law is Unconstitutional | 1/28/1977 | See Source »

...securely bolting, or so they think, the doors to student concern and participation--epitomizes the slimy, macchiavellian, fetid, underhanded, unscrupulous and most questionable manner in which the Administration has traditionally managed to impose its bureaucratic wet-dreams upon the lives of those most affected by its decisions. An encouraging sign is that concerned and enraged students are organizing, under the name of Committee for a Democratic University (C.D.U.), to combat, not merely this proposal, but the reality of ceaseless Administration encroachment upon the rights and lives of students and workers at this University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ungodly Harvard | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

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