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Word: swing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard currently accepts approximately 80 transfer students each year, but officials would not speculate as to how many more transfers would be accepted when the plan is in full swing...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: College Admits First-Ever Spring Transfer Students | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

...Swing-Man: Definitely the Crimson's deepest position. The junior trio of Neil Phillips, Kevin Collins and Tedd Evers have split time, and are very solid players. Phillips brings a good shot and solid defense to the starting spot, and sixth-man Collins seems to spark a rally every time he comes into the game. Evers can shoot the lights out--when...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Do Cagers Make the Grade? | 1/27/1988 | See Source »

...misalliance, all drawn in the scrumptious Sunday- funnies style of Milton Caniff. And the three volumes titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (First Publishing; $9.95 each) sport with the whole genre, portraying a quartet of Testudinatas, trained by a wise rat in the refinements of Japanese martial arts, as they swing through various U.S. metropolitan areas righting wrongs and creating mischief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Passing of Pow! and Blam! | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

Michael is the latest and, by the look of it, most enduring of the recent British presences on the American charts. Other current London rages like the bands Swing Out Sister and Curiosity Killed the Cat have also made a heavy Stateside impression by concocting easeful pop that shirks issues and shrugs off anything more serious than having a good time. Major American talent like Bruce Springsteen often carries a big thematic stick, but Britpoppers wield a club -- a nightclub where the solipsism of Thatcher's England is chilled out, prettied up and danced to till dawn. If you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tunes for The New Ice Age | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...year for the Boston City Council has begun with what some observers are calling a swing to the left...

Author: By Adriane Y. Stewart, | Title: A Shift in Boston City Council | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

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