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Word: uniformed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enter Dr. Jekyll, masquerading in uniform number 24 as Stenhouse, with five minutes to go in the stanza. Stenhouse teamed with Glenn Fine to crank up the Harvard offense and keep Harvard within range of Dartmouth at the intermission...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Cagers Can Dartmouth, 71-69 | 3/1/1978 | See Source »

...entourage claim that the Government secretly sought to strike a deal?offering, if he would go quietly into uniform, to allow him to defend his title regularly and put on boxing exhibitions. A similar arrangement had been worked out for Joe Louis during World War II. The Pentagon last week denied that any such arrangement was ever suggested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatest Is Gone | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

Twenty states* have moved to stop nose thumbing at court orders by passing the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, which generally promises respect for custody terms worked out in other states. That still leaves 30 states as potential havens for child snatchers, however, and the act does not provide a mechanism to track abductions across state lines. An obvious answer is federal standards, but lawmakers are reluctant to thrust Washington into family spats. Says U.S. Representative John Conyers of Michigan, whose House Judiciary subcommittee has buried several federal bills: "Whenever there is onerous conduct, everybody says there ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Moving to Stop Child Snatching | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...rugger from his days at the University of California, naturally invited the boys home to New Mexico for a match against the locals. And that might explain what the mayor, at 37 years of age and a stocky 215 Ibs., was doing in an Albuquerque Aardvarks B team uniform, facing the Cardinal Newman Old Boys Rugby Club of Buenos Aires. Panting, mostly. Final score: Old Boys 11, Aardvarks 0. "I know the game; I played it for 14 years," gasped his honor at half time. "But I haven't played for the last six." Ah, the perfect host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 20, 1978 | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...establishment of uniform standards for tenure selection and institution of scholarships for out-of-state high school graduates were also copied at other universities. The national scholarship program was of particular importance. It turned Harvard from a regional college for sons of the rich into an internationally-respected institution of higher learning open--more or less--to those qualified to attend, regardless of background. The impact of Harvard's move to a more meritocratic selection process had on budding scientists, humanists and professionals is incalculable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: James B. Conant 1893-1978 | 2/17/1978 | See Source »

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