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Word: raked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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Wedged between the Cambridge Common, the Radcliffe Quadrangle and the Law School is a short residential street lined with trees--the sort of place where children ride big wheels and parents rake the lawns on Saturday afternoons...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Neighborhood Fights Law School Club | 11/20/1990 | See Source »

...desire to rake in contributions from alumni who want winning teams and good prospects for their own children, Harvard has badly compromised its role as an intellectual leader among American colleges. Betsy Bynum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admissions Policy Is Unfair | 11/17/1990 | See Source »

Harvard will rake in $4410 this week from 147 undergraduates who failed to file study cards Monday, the registrar's office said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS BRIEFS | 9/27/1990 | See Source »

Although the Crimson's new 3-4-3 formation, which brings an extra defensive player up to midfield, did help the Crimson maintain consistent pressure on the Providence net, it didn't rake in the goals...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, | Title: W. Booters' Strategy Stumbles, 2-1, in OT | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

Comic artifice is better served in a static rendering of Dorothy Parker's Dusk Before Fireworks (directed by Ken Russell, adapted by Valerie Curtin). In the giddy days of bathtub gin -- much guzzling in all three stories, by the way -- the coitus of an aging rake (Peter Weller) and a nubile flapper is rendered interruptus by untimely calls from his other women. Former teen queen Molly Ringwald delivers her lioness's share of the Parker sallies with engaging zest but seems a bit too twentysomethingly modern for a tart of the Roaring Twenties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Six Tales, Twice Told | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

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