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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...statistics alone tell much of the story. Harvard was outrebounded 25-35 on the evening, and shot 33 percent from the floor, including a devastating 4-for-20 effort from behind the arc. Meanwhile, Dartmouth reeled in 11 offensive boards and shot a glowing-by-comparison 38 percent from the floor...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gang Green Sinks M. Hoops, 57-53 | 1/7/1998 | See Source »

...final legs of their race. Some of them seem to be cheering you on, but most are indifferent. A few come up to you and warn you that the race is no fun at all. They urge you to pull out, give up. But you don't. You tell yourself, "Maybe they couldn't make...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Running a Rough Race | 1/7/1998 | See Source »

...editorial's observation that the program focuses excessively on minors (specifically underage Harvard students) is false unless, as the editorial seemed to indicate, underage Harvard students are excessively preoccupied with breaking the law. The editorial failed to tell its reading public that adults were also arrested--also as they were breaking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cops in Shops' Program Warranted | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

...conventional angiogram, and which can be performed only with a scanner created by Imatron, a San Francisco-based company. Radiologists at the Moscow Cardiology Center had just begun learning to use the machine when Imatron began getting E-mails from them: They wanted to use the scanner ? which can tell if a bypass graft has closed up ? on Yeltsin. Imatron stepped up the tutorial; now doctors say he is in the pink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Scoop: Yeltsin's Doctors Get U.S. Assist | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

According to your story, Americans are fleeing to small towns but the people who already live there are narrow-minded know-nothings. Of course, in big cities and their suburbs, the schools are perfect, all citizens are intelligent, and they welcome newcomers who want to tell them how to do things differently. If the people who live in small towns are so ignorant, how did this country manage to have two intelligent presidential candidates in the 1996 election who grew up and blossomed in small towns in Arkansas and Kansas? Next time take a more balanced look. ALICEANN WOHLBRUCK, Executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 29, 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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