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Word: sylvania (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Stadium, in the heart of once-Puritan New England, can be the home of a grand new religious uproar, a modern-day, semi-Antinomian crisis. With Penn-sylvania's Quakers coming to Cambridge today, we must band together and reject William Penn's descendants as our forefathers did more than two centuries...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Religious Dissension Afoot | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

...plays moodily with a Laura doll, a husband doll, a daughter. In the state government office where he works (the state happens to be Utah, though not much is made of the fact, and the film's lo cation could just as easily have been Penn sylvania), he shoves papers into his Out box without reading them and swigs vod ka from a pint in his desk drawer. Laura does not call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rah! Rah! Rah!? | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...forth, Duck Soup gives the Marxist troika a world--or at least a nation--to win. Groucho is Rufus T. Firefly, the President of Fredonia; his slogan, an eerie anticipation of Proposition 13, is "Whatever it is, I'm against it." Chico and Harpo are spies for Sylvania, a rival power. (Chico also enjoys a brief stint as a Public Nusiance in Groucho's cabinet). Margaret Dumont is a rich widow who is quite literally Groucho's biggest backer. There are millions of classic scenes in the film, including Chico's trial for treason, a war conference that evolves into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: That's Entertainment? | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

...Dewitt C. Jones IV '79 of Eliot House and Falmouth, Ma.; Harry P. Litman '80 of Lowell House and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Matthew H. Lynch '79 of Lowell House and Adamant, Vt.; Jeffrey L. Saver '81 of Mower Hall and Scarsdale, N.Y.; Kevin B. Shaw '79 of Leverett House and Sylvania, Ohio; Michael E. Silver '80 of Dunster House and Scarsdale, N.Y.; Marin J. Strmecki '81 of Thayer Hall and Madison, Wisc.; and Nancy A. Tentindo '81 of Canaday Hall and Revere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lessons Of the Sit-In At Penn | 3/15/1978 | See Source »

...Harvard team returned to Cambridge with the fifth place trophy after a tie-breaker separated the six teams deadlocked in second place behind the first place finisher, University of Penn-sylvania...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Chessmen Mate in St. Louis | 1/6/1978 | See Source »

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