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Word: thirds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standing by a river suddenly noticed a baby float by. One of the men jumped into the river and swam the baby to shore. Then a second baby floated by, and a third. Each time, the same man swam to the rescue. But babies kept coming, one after another. The other man saw that they were getting nowhere. So he walked upstream to stop the flood of babies at its source...

Author: By Michael E. Wall, | Title: For Social Change | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Proceeding on his mad mission, Lepine went down to the first-floor cafeteria, where he killed three more women, then up to the third floor, where he gunned down four others. Besides the 14 women killed, 13 people, four of them men, were wounded. Finally the attacker turned the weapon on himself, blowing away part of his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada The Man Who Hated Women | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...Third Period--6, N, Hunter (unassisted) 2:36; 7, N. Karen Akre (Heidi Chalupnik (Weston, Akre) 16:44; 9, N. Chalupnik (Bye, Davidson) 17:16; 10, N, Kelly Thorne (Rockburn) 17:27. Penalties--N, Davidson (roughing) 2:56; H, Stickles (interference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Power UNH Overwhelms Icewomen | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

IMAGINE a Harvard Commencement at which one house graduates no summas. Picture another house which graduates no varsity hockey, football or basketball players. And a third which graduates fewer than a dozen Blacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Randomize Now | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

...prepared by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, indicated that the proposal might take the edge off of some stereotypes, but Whitla relied on data from last year's lottery in which first-year students selected "unpopular" houses as a safe second or third choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Randomize Now | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

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