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Word: waded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tradition, 342 years of it, give or take a few. Harvard's traditions grow like the ivy on its buildings -- somethimes so thick that they obscure what's underneath. When you get here you will no doubt be curious to wade about in some of this tradition that you are paying for, perhaps even make a little of your own, but where to go to find out what it's all shout...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Crazy Bob's Tour of Harvard, (Or What's Under All That Ivy, Sir?) | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...muscle, in contrast to 40% for men. Dr. Jack Wilmore, president of the American College of Sports Medicine, has found that women, because they have low levels of the androgenic hormones that enlarge muscles, can increase their strength 50% to 75% with no increase in muscle bulk. Witness Virginia Wade, sleek and slender, who can serve a tennis ball at 92 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Weaker Sex? Hah! | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...books and classrooms, but if this is true, it is hard to see how art like Davis's, which is built on careful study of color and space and interrelationships between the two, can ever win a popular following. People who do not have the time and expertise to wade through lenthy and obscure explanations of theory will have to form their opinions of modern art purely from observation of bizarre-looking canvasses that are often not aesthetically pleasing and require great open-mindedness to appreciate...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: Profundity or Paint Rags? | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

Harvard and Salem State were deadlocked before Wade Anders, the last man in the clubhouse for Salem State, posted an 82. Ander's score obliterated his teammate's 85 and slapped the linksmen with their second loss of the season...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Linksters Succumb to Wollaston and Salem State | 4/14/1978 | See Source »

Still, the book is so amiable and loose-jointed, perhaps like the U.S. itself, that the reader is happy to wade through balderdash to the next bit of good storytelling or good sense. Meanwhile, what about this name change? Why Morgan? Why not Carnegie or Rockefeller? Why not Svensen or Von Humboldt or Verrazanno or Sun Yatsen? Well, Morgan explains, he threw away his first name, Sanche-a contraction of St. Charles -and scrambled the letters of De Gramont. Among the anagrams that resulted were Dr. Montage, R.D. Megaton and Ted Morgan. Morgan, he felt, was someone you would lend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Countless Blessings | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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