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Word: dicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's number three Bob Horne and number six Dick Arnos both dropped their singles matches. Horne, who went undefeated at number six as a freshman, suffered his first varsity singles loss...

Author: By Steven A. Herzenberg, | Title: Curley's Win in Tie Breaker Gives Netmen First '79 Win | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

...Cuba's Alejandro Casanas. "Within the next year or two," predicts Bob Hersh, men's records chairman for the Amateur Athletic Union, "he's going to establish himself as the greatest high hurdler who ever lived." Coaches like Elliott and San Diego State's Dick Hill think Nehemiah will take the record below 13 sec., a feat that would be as remarkable as breaking 9 flat in the 100-yd. dash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I Am No. 1! | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...buffs there are excerpts from the 1972 novel The Gods Themselves and the award-winning robot story The Bicentennial Man. For those who prefer Asimov's other talents, there are such tours de force as an introduction to binary numbers; an explanation, in language that even Dick and Jane can follow, of why it is possible (but not practical) to reverse the basic nuclear reaction and convert energy into matter; some witty Asimovian annotations on Shakespeare, the Bible and the poetry of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Byron; as lagniappe, he throws in a few limericks of the type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...compared to the House productions, which are performed either in somebody's closet or on top of a dining room condiment table, it probably seems that way. If you want to be dazzled, go see Godspell with its original cast. If you want to be moved, go see Dick Burton or Larry Olivier. But if you want to have a relaxing evening of shaving cream fight-type fun, go see a Pudding show, any Pudding show. It will set you back as much as a box seat at Fenway for a Red Sox game...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: The Smell of the Crowd | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

...Bank Dick and two W.C. Fields Shorts. Quincy Dining Hall, Friday and Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

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