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Word: tuned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet served as a tune up for the big Ivy League clash with Princeton in the IAB on the 31st. Harvard, after drubbing Dartmouth last Saturday, is a serious contender for the Ivy title, and the Princeton meet will be crucial. Mike Dee is expected to be back from a knee injury sustained at Clarion, to wrestle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grapplers Pin a 35-11 Loss on MIT | 1/15/1975 | See Source »

Penn won the derby handily, blowing the Crimson off the hardwood to the tune of 103-75. Princeton lagged far behind but still managed to finish ten points ahead of Harvard...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Crimson Cagers Collapse on the Road; Succumb to Pennsylvania, Princeton | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...families to be unrelated. Still, it reminds Bernstein of a discovery he made when he was an undergraduate: the first four notes of Aaron Copland's Piano Variations rearranged and transposed in various ways turn up in all kinds of music, both Western and non-Western. A four note tune may seem to be a weak and superficial thread with which to bind music of different cultures, but it's the kind of thread Bernstein likes. A considerable amount of musical analysis in subsequent lectures is based on just this sort of tune-hunting...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Whither Bernstein? | 1/8/1975 | See Source »

Sales have been softest in such big-ticket items as major appliances and furniture. Less expensive, practical items like do-it-yourself auto tune-up kits and pocket calculators (which can now be bought for under $20) have been selling well. So, in general, have basic clothes -especially sweaters-although one executive at Baltimore's Hutzler Bros, notes that "the whole men's area is sick. The old man is the first one cut off the Christmas list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Holiday Sales: Less Jingle This Year | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...prepared." Margaret Mead concurs about the need for practicality. In an interview with TIME Senior Correspondent Ruth Galvin, Mead charged that anthropologists are producing "academic versions of themselves and aren't oriented to things that need to be done in this world. They have spent too much tune discussing how many cross-cousins could dance on the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Studying the American Tribe | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

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