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Word: stringing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, only days later, the Minutemen's second string signalcaller went down with a jammed thumb. He will miss about a month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Football Prospectus 1986: Over 100 Years of Hands-On Action | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

Former Defensive Line Coach Ed Zubrow steps in to replace miracle worker Jerry Berndt (who departs for Rice) as the Quakers set out to match Dartmouth's record string of five consecutive Ivy titles this fall. (The Big Green ruled the Ancient Eight from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Football Prospectus 1986: Over 100 Years of Hands-On Action | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

Such discoveries have swelled Harvard's string of Nobel prizes to 29, of which 25 have been won by the scientific and medical departments, whose scholarly explorations Harvard contemplates with special pride. Among the others: significant discoveries in the fields of chemical bonding, laser spectroscopy and quantum electrodynamics. President Paul Gray of M.I.T., Harvard's great scientific rival and neighbor on the Charles, twits Harvard for its emphasis on esoteric research. "M.I.T.," Gray says, "is more at ease with the real world." To which Paul Martin, dean of Harvard's Division of Applied Sciences, replies with a seigneurish thrust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Happy Birthday, Fair Harvard! | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...million to make and has since earned more than $200 million. Columbia's major summer release, The Karate Kid Part II, has done well since it opened two months ago, pulling in gross revenues of about $94 million. But the film can not compensate for a two-year string of flops that included Perfect and The Bride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Puttnam Goes to Hollywood | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...time he was 16, he made it to Houston, where he "slept on anybody's couch until I wore out my welcome." He hooked up with his uncle Nick Fain, who had lived with the family for a while and taught his nephew the rudiments of six-string rock guitar. "He was only five years older than I was," Earle says. "He was my hero." A friendship with Townes Van Zandt started Earle down the folk-music trail, where he eventually landed jobs on the coffeehouse circuit. "There was lots of noise and smoke. I became the world's loudest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steve Earle: The Color of Country | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

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