Word: bertha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then told me she could beat me up. I agreed with her again. Then she said she would demonstrate her strength by tearing apart my beer can, and she did. I couldn't take it after that, so I went home and studied some chemistry. I dubbed her Bertha after that and, unfortunately, a lot of the dorm picked up on it. She never learned of her nickname, and I'm glad she's not reading this...
...horse out of the frozen gravel, and by 4 a.m. they were finished. They earned Shorty's grudging admiration. "Those people did something nobody ever did before in this country," he allowed. "They got a horse in a well and got it out alive." Later that winter Bertha Donaldson fell ill and had to be evacuated by Bush Pilot Sheldon. Soon she. was back, not knowing that her illness, Hodgkin's disease, would some day cause her to leave Alaska and would eventually take her life. In the early spring she wrote in her journal...
Tonight's concert will also feature Sam Palifian who will play Big Bertha, the world's largest playable tuba--a prized possession of the Harvard Band...
...claim ever more space beside crayons and building blocks. Says Principal Arwood: "There are some children who are ready for paper-and-pencil activities in kindergarten. There are many who are not. We have a lot of social problems with kids who aren't up to those things." Bertha Campbell, head of the bureau of child development at the New York State department of education, says that demanding kindergartens create too much stress for the youngsters and can have damaging consequences. She warns, "We have data which say absolutely that if you 'structure' too quickly you kill...
Author and teacher Bertha "Ben" Cummings Neustadt, a member of the State Commission on Employment of the Handicapped and wife of Littauer Professor of Public Administration Richard E. Nesutadt, died after a long illness at her Cambridge home...