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Word: superior (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michigan's Upper Peninsula, which separates Lake Superior from lakes Michigan and Huron, there are bumper stickers that exhort: SAVE A FISH-SPEAR AN INDIAN. Whites have fired shots at Chippewa fishermen, smashed their boats and slashed their tires. The confrontation intensified last spring after Federal Judge Noel Fox ruled that, under treaties signed in 1836 and 1855, the state could not regulate fishing by Indians. Said Fox: "The fish belong to the Indians as a matter of right." Since then, many Chippewas on the poverty-battered Bay Mills reservation have become full-time commercial fishermen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Chippewas Want Their Rights | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...script seemed perfect--continual pressure from the clearly superior team and finally a goal late in the game. The writer made only one mistake--the wrong team scored. Bill Moran's goal with 5:17 left in a soccer contest yesterday in Amherst helped UMass steal victory from the Crimson...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: UMass Topples Booters, 1-0 | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

...trial continues today in Suffolk County Superior Court...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Vice Expert Testifies in Puopolo Trial | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

...Burgess Meredith, then enrolled at Stanford Law School, where she graduated tenth in her class ('49) and married the man who graduated No. 1, Seth Hufstedler. She practiced general civil law in Los Angeles until 1961, when Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown named her a Los Angeles County superior court judge. In 1966 he promoted her to the California Court of Appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter's Choice | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...Middlesex County Superior Court is expected to hand down its decision today on a former Harvard police officer accused of larceny last December...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Former University Policeman Will Face Jury's Decision | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

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