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Word: subs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year later, after a 4-3 pitching record on a sub-.500 varsity baseball squad, Brown was back on the football field. Pictures in the game program and post-game interviews with alumni were put off another year. Patience was not only a virtue, it was a priceless commodity...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Here's Looking at Ya, Brownie | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...minority admissions subcommittee. Oglesby Paul's original proposal for its elimination did a bureaucratic shuffle last May into a review committee surveying the whole of admissions at the Med School. The Third World and minority students thought then that they had won at least another year for the sub-committee--assuming that the bureaucracy would creep at its usual petty pace...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Meanwhile, at the Med School... | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel the University, put it this way, "Under the Bakke decision I think there can be minority sub-committees--the question is what their functions will be." That was a question the Bakke case was supposed to decide, but didn...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Meanwhile, at the Med School... | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...that had first been hostile to the plan--notably professors in the natural sciences, who felt their disciplines were under-represented in the scheme of requirements--agreed to a "floater" amendment, which authorized the administrative Core Committees to study the possibility of switching one or more courses among different sub-areas. Most of the disgruntled professors joined the bandwagon as eagerly as if they had been firmly promised a spot in the Cote, rather than just that possibility. (Hope springs eternal, they say.) Likewise, another amendment authorized research into and experimentatin with a strictly regulated by-pass system--again...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Farewell to Gen Ed | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

During a dive, the light recedes above the conning tower. Silver gives way to green as the sub slowly sinks and finally bumps on the bottom of the bay. A kind of breathing silence enshrouds the diver. When the two electric engines are switched on, the first impact is like being caught inside a vacuum cleaner. But noise is soon forgotten as S 250 noses along just above the floor of the bay, a flat, sandy-brown miniature moonscape unrolling beneath the 3-in.-thick, 16-in.-in-diameter window in the bow. Cynically one expects to find old shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Rhode Island: Rapture of the Shallows | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

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