Lex/Nex & The Big Dance

[beth lee simon]

If you're using the academic (don't know the formal label) version/access for
Lex/Nex, know that the search is conducted through only the first 2 (3?)
paragraphs of any article. So, if the term occurs late in an article, there
won't be a hit.

Those of you using Lex/Nex out of your regular academic/research libraries might
not be aware of this. The complete search engine goes with the more expensive
contract -- usually business, government agencies, etc.

beth simon
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Fred Shapiro wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Anna M Fellegy wrote:
>
> > I'm entering this brief discussion late in the game but, for what it's
> > worth, the NCAA's Final Four basketball tournament is also called "the Big
> > Dance"--the last three turns on the floor of March Madness.
>
> The earliest occurrence of _big dance_ that I find on Nexis is a 1981 UPI
> story referring to the NCAA tournament.  But, because of the way I
> constructed my search, I might have missed earlier usage in other
> contexts.
>
> Fred R. Shapiro                             Coeditor (with Jane Garry)
> Associate Librarian for Public Services     TRIAL AND ERROR: AN OXFORD
>   and Lecturer in Legal Research            ANTHOLOGY OF LEGAL STORIES
> Yale Law School                             Oxford University Press, 1998
> e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu               ISBN 0-19-509547-2