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Word: thirdly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NOTEBOOK: The booters upped their record to 4-3-1 (1-2 Ivies) with their third straight win...Their longest winning string last season was two victories...Saturday the Crimson faces a tough Princeton squad in a key Ivy marchup

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Booters Run Winning String to Three As Mogollon Registers Lone Marker | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

Friedman, whose company was selected from among 17 firms that originally submitted development proposals, says the price tag on the project has gone up one-third from original estimate. "We knew it would be a slow process," Friedman says, "but nobody anticipated how slow it would...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Board Approves Parcel 1B Project; Citizens Fear Traffic, Pollution Rise | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

Though Ferrante relies mainly on her speed to frustrate the opposition, by improving her ball control and developing a more powerful shot, she has scored more frequently this year than last, when she still ranked as the team's third-highest scorer. In addition, her better ball-handling skills have made her a defensive, as well as offensive, threat...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Two Soccer Players Make the Game Look Easy | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

...animals. Henry Morton Stanley said he was beset on all sides by savage cannibals during his famous trek through Africa to find Livingstone. Margaret Mead wrote about the man-eating Mundugumor of New Guinea. There is only one thing wrong with all these reports: they come second or third hand, and are probably false. That is the surprising thesis of a new book called The Man-Eating Myth by Anthropologist William Arens, who believes cannibalism may never have existed anywhere as a regular custom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Do People Really Eat People? | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...women feel more guilty than men when they cheat on their mates? Yes, concludes a Penn State study, but they get more emotional satisfaction out of the affair. Of 205 men and women-all recently separated or divorced-surveyed by Sociologist Graham Spanier, more than a third said they had cheated during marriage (38% males, 37% females). But a much higher percentage of the straying women said they found their adventures very satisfactory (57% to the males' 34%). The women paid the price for being satisfied; they reported almost twice as much guilt as men. Spanier says that might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Infidelity Poll | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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