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Word: y (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson will have an opportunity to avenge its only loss of the year--to Yale at the San Diego Crew Classic--when it races in the H-Y-Ps against the Elis and Princeton next weekend...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Harvard Crews Cruise... | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...lights travel to the Severn River--reknowned for its bad racing conditions--in Annapolis, Md., to face Navy next Saturday in preparation for their biggest race of the year, the H-Y-Ps the following weekend in Princeton. The Crimson is hoping to avenge its only loss this season--a second-place finish behind Yale at the San Diego Crew Classic three weeks...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: M. Lightweights Dunk Dartmouth, MIT | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...been racing well in practice," Mostashari said, "and although our race was perhaps subpar, we're well on the way to surprising some people at the H-Y...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: M. Lightweights Dunk Dartmouth, MIT | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

Ulrike D. Drees, biology, and Michelle Q. Wang, computer science and linguistics from Leverett; Tina L. Lu, East Asian language and civilization, Lowell House; and Jennifer Y. Wu, economics, North House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twelve Juniors Win National Honors | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

...severely damaging. Take, for example, the supposed link between the XYY chromosome pattern and criminal behavior. In 1965 a study of violent criminals in a Scottish high-security mental institution found that a surprisingly high percentage had a particular chromosomal abnormality: in addition to the X and Y chromosomes normally found in men, each carried an extra Y, or "male" chromosome. The press and public seized on the idea that these so-called supermales were genetically predestined to a life of crime. That interpretation proved false. Further investigations showed that the vast majority of men with the XYY pattern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Perils of Treading on Heredity | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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