Word: ing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...computer privilege has allowed students to set up a telecommunications conference. "Confer-ing" enables students to discuss, via computer, different topics or "items" with others in the conference...
...Confer-ing" is not just for computer science jocks. Less than 60 percent of confers are computer science or engineering majors. "Teleconferencing and electronic mail are the only things you can do on computers without knowing anything about them," Jun explained...
...tiny fraction of her famous father's 300-plus lbs. She will be the third lady in the Perry household, joining Mom and her three-year-old big sister Latavia. "Now I'm outnumbered three to one," quipped the Chicago Bears defensive tackle, who celebrated by pass ing around chocolate cigars. Though Mrs. Perry has already gone home, the diapered "fridgette" will have to stay in the hospital about three more weeks. Imagine a Perry who is supposed to gain weight...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard hosts a tough Vermont squad Saturday, in a Soldiers Field doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.....Freshman Ellen Cox had her first start, dh-ing for Dickerman...Crowley led the Crimson with three hits...Harvard's lineup had another slight change, with Trisha Brown (formerly the number five hitter) batting cleanup, and Hayes moving from the fourth to the fifth slot...The Engineers batted around in the fifth...
Eighty-six years after his death, the name of Horatio Alger Jr. still conjures up unlikely memories of improbable dreams. In more than 100 of Alger's books for young readers, upstanding, hardwork- ing poor boys reached sudden and unexpected success by saving rich benefactors from terrible fates. But it turns out that Alger had a dream of his own -- to appeal to grownups. This July the Shoe String Press will publish for the first time Alger's Mabel Parker; or, The Hidden Treasure, a story of true love triumphing over mere monetary pursuits. Now in the archives at Syracuse...