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Word: vapor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dusk settles in on this warm June afternoon. Four F-15s from the Harvard Air Force streak across the sky, and as their vapor trails begin to fade, 10,000 rockets light up the sky, creating a vast crimson-and-yellow Ve-Ri-Tas shield and profile of a smiling Nathan M. Pusey. The 9000-member marching band strikes up a rousing final rendition of "Harvardiana...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: A Top of the Class Act? | 4/12/1986 | See Source »

...program called Jazz boogied to market nearly two months late. Says Chairman Mitch Kapor: "It was like losing our virginity." One software publisher, Ansa, has adopted the policy of IBM, which usually declines to discuss products before they have been shipped to dealers. But other firms still deal in vapor. At a recent trade show, Atari announced the names of 138 programs being written for its new ST machine. Only 44 were available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Hardware, Software, Vaporware | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...LIKE A VAPOR TRAIL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

...tank was designed to keep the deadly MIC refrigerated and isolated from the environment. But on the night of Dec. 2, a series of runaway chemical reactions heated the interior of the tank to 400 degreesF, causing an escape valve to burst open and release a lethal cloud of vapor over the slums of Bhopal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: What Happened At Bhopal | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...test of the fountain last Monday and Tuesday revealed that winds above 15 knots blow away the water vapor, ruining the fountains rainbow affect, Oommen said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Science Center Fountain Beset By Problems | 3/12/1985 | See Source »

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