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Word: textbooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Combining her amazing consistency with near-perfect form, tri-captain Julie Brynteson lofted a textbook shot into the upper-righthand corner of the net to give the Crimson a 2-0 advantage near the close of the half...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Booters Whitewash Williams | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

...publisher describes The Nuclear Question as a "valuable book for anyone who wishes to understand better the nuclear issues of our time." Directed at the "general reader," the book looms threatening because Mandelbaum has written a history that reads like your sixth grade civics textbook. Like your sixth grade civics textbook, it consists of equal parts myth and omission...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Nuke This Book | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

...personal relationship of Lincoln and Douglas in his dialogue, the play might have more interest. Unfortunately, the dialogue fails to explore the characters of the two men, relying on texts of the debates to do so. As a result, The Rivalry remains nothing more than a tired rehash of textbook history. Abe Lincoln deserves better...

Author: By Amy R. Gutman, | Title: Rivalling the Worst | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

Bromberg lost four games in the two-hour chess match to David Groisser '78; Loren Dean '83; Se-Jin Lee '81, president of the H-R Chess Club; and David Chelton, a production editor for a textbook company in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chess Master Takes On All Comers And Defeats Seven of 15 Opponents | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

Without a return to some consensus in society at large, no future textbook historian will ever again have Muzzey's authority or his winning "tone of self-assurance, his assumption of his own legitimacy in the American tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: E PIuribus Confusion | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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