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Word: unfamiliar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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From such unfamiliar heights, Coach Paterno and his Nittany Lions are now preparing for a Sugar Bowl showdown with the Southeastern Conference champion. Paterno juggled bowl bids for a week because he wanted to make sure that Penn State would face its highest-ranked opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 1 and Still Climbing | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...market, the University could hire such instrutors to teach many of the undergraduate tutorials currently taught by graduate students. Instuctors could teach specific tutorials concerning subjects on which they have specialized, avoiding the all-too-prevalent misfortune of having graduate students teach subjects with which they are unfamiliar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teaching Reforms | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

There are four men and two women in the troupe, and they slip with disconcerting ease from dance patterns in which they are sexually distinct figures, to movements in which they are asexual hominoids, and then further, to strange massings in which we see not figures but a wholly unfamiliar tree of elbows and buttocks, then a viscous fluidity of flesh that breaks like a wave, then a great, undifferentiated lump that slams itself about on the sculptor's table, startling us with its momentary resemblances to beasts remembered from dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Fungus, Fantasy and Fun | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...much-criticized defense remains much-injured, so you can expect to see a lot of unfamiliar numbers in there today...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Season Begins and Ends Today | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...Harvard season began, of course, with lots of unfamiliar numbers in there, but strong title hopes nonetheless. The Crimson had supercool Larry Brown back at quarterback, a stable of runners led by RalphPolillio and Wayne Moore, a dependable offensive line (without which no football team--anywhere--does anything of note) despite the essentially virgin defense...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Season Begins and Ends Today | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

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