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Word: strength (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson, back to full strength for its games against Yale and Brown this weekend and Dartmouth Tuesday night, is looking to use its own form of Crazy Glue--a lightning-quick transition game--to firmly secure the Ivy League title...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Fencers Hope to Follow up N.E. Championship | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

...Special Concentrations Department's greatest strength may be the opportunity it offers for individual attention, students and faculty members say. "She keeps tabs on my social life," says Charney of her adviser. "She is my department...

Author: By Anne F. Palmer, | Title: The Road Less Traveled By | 3/2/1988 | See Source »

...little girls can watch the top female Olympic ice skaters without daydreaming. Most of the skaters epitomize bodily beauty and strength, personal grace and confidence. Many have a face to match...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Athletes or Aesthetes | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...questioned. In the Olympic gymnastic events athletes compete in teams, all wearing the same uniforms and little makeup. The women are judged not by their facial beauty or their "well-built" bodies, as Witt said she wished to be judged by, but by a true combination of graceful strength and athletic elegance...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Athletes or Aesthetes | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...speak negatively of athletic standards in pairs' or men's skating is unthinkable. Yet when a woman gets on the ice all alone, she is expected to prove her femininity, not her strength. Thomas might have lost even without risking the exciting jumps; Witt might have won with those risks. But Witt didn't have to try, didn't have to risk falling, didn't have to exhaust herself during her competition...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Athletes or Aesthetes | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

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