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Word: typo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clock ticked down, overtime went from a possibility to a likelihood. Let's see, we think, when was the last time the ECAC championship game went into overtime...? (sound of flipping through program)...not since 1963, when--no, it's not a typo--Harvard nipped Boston College, 4-3. So, We're up for it: one moment to settle everything...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Green Line Change: UNH Over B.U. | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

After you're finished imbibing and have eaten your fill at the Ratty, Brown's dining hall named after a Boston punk rock emporium, you can go back to the stadium and watch a soccer game. No, this isn't a typo. The Harvard and Brown teams will meet under the lights...

Author: By Mare Sadowsky, | Title: Dressing for the Game | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

...they've already scored nine goals against Vermont--in a single period--once this season, and counting on Colgate to win a big game is like counting on The Crimson to print a typo-less paper. But who knows? In a school of engineers, a short circuit is always possible...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Skating on Thin Ice | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

...controls of a plane called Helga (for Helga R. Hughes, the name used by Author Clifford Irving's wife in opening a Swiss bank account). The other is simply a portrait of the mustachioed billionaire signed "H.R. Hughs." Were the T-shirt journalists guilty of a typo in the misspelling of Hughes' name? Purely intentional, said Manhattan Photographer Bill Stettner, who founded Flame Enterprises; the incorrect spelling was used to avoid any legal action by Hughes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The News on T Shirts | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

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