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Word: ra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lead seven minutes into the game. Employing a full-court press, the Mountain Hawks forced the Crimson ballhandlers into poor interior passing and in general were quicker to the ball than Harvard. Going inside didn't work either as 6'10 Lehigh junior Sah-U-Ra Brown had three of his four blocks in the first half...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Basketball Scores 50 in Second Half to Top Lehigh, 72-62 | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...someone who composes his music from recombinations of pre-existing sound fragments, a remix album is certainly appropriate. Subliminal Minded, DJ Spooky's follow-up to last year's Riddim Warfare, combines remixes, sound collages and general mayhem in a sonic soup that is equal parts John Cage, Sun Ra, Grandmaster Flash, and Aphrodite. DJ Spooky, a. k. a. That Subliminal Kid, a. k. a. Paul D. Miller, is a founder of the New York illbient sound, which blends the urban, rhythmic edge of hip-hop, dub and jungle with the abstract, ambient noise techniques of French musique concrte...

Author: By Jeremy Salfen, | Title: Album Review: DJ Spooky | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

Among its many technological wonders, the library boasted Ra-Tox venetian blinds, "the world's most modern windows" by Thermopane, Celotex acoustical ceilings, the Sikes "Seats of Knowledge," Art Metal Steel book stacks and a state-of-the-art air conditioning system by the G.A. Berman...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A World of Books All Their Own | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...still no Dr. Know, but she may be She-Ra in disguise. The Divinity School's Center for the Study of Values in Public Life presents "Dr. Laura: Master of the Moral Universe?" Linda Nicholson, CSVPL and University of Albany speaks about the legend, the myth, the woman. Room 2, Rockefeller Hall, Harvard Divinity School. 12 p.m. FREE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRIDAY MAR 5 | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

...child in the basket and names him Moses. The name is connected to a Hebrew verb indicating that she drew him from the water. Many scholars, however, think it derives from an Egyptian suffix meaning "to be born"--just as Rameses, who was considered divine, is a form of Ra-Moses, or "the god Ra is born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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