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Word: tuned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Assuming the potentially potent defense plays up to par the Crimson eleven should send the visitors back home to the tune of Ruby and the Romantics. Kickoff for today's game...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Crimson, MIT Booters Kick Off Season; Acorn, Bullard Will Foot the Offense | 9/24/1975 | See Source »

...conservation efforts, since the only people with access to this choice property are members of the Fly, an exclusive, all-male final club. The University must pay taxes on the land since it is not used for educational purposes, and did so last fiscal year to the tune of $4800. Yet Harvard has never requested any rent from the Fly and has received for its philanthropy only some free grass-cutting. And not only did the University pay the Fly $33,000 for the land back in 1956, but ever since it has shelled out a total of over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For a Free People's Park | 9/24/1975 | See Source »

...which users can tune their sets to transmit or receive on any of 23 channels in the high-frequency band, close to the "land mobile" channels used by cab companies and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Drivers' Network | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

Aong the back edge of the crowds, Belfast's teenieboppers, with stencils on their shirts reading "Bay City Rollers" (the local rock group that made it big) ran alongside their neighborhood bands. At the beginning of a new tune, the drums would sound a sharp call and the girls would throw up their fists three times, punching the air with a stacatto...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Britain, Orangeism: Pieces of the Ulster Puzzle | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...book Early Jazz, the first volume of his The History of Jazz, makes a convincing case for the European march as a source of the rag. A typical Joplin rag has a disciplined arrangement of repeats and returns not unlike that of the march, and a similar duple tune signature. Jazz probably got its start, Schuller believes, when saloon pianists who could not read music began improvising rags they had heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Scott Joplin: From Rags to Opera | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

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