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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walk the other way down Mass Ave is Central Square, heart of non-University Cambridge. It's here you'll find Cambridge City Hall, an imposing, dingy brick hall that boasts one of the few front lawns anywhere on Mass Ave. Central Square is also where the old-style big city department stores and the Y can be found, not to mention the police station and the MacDonalds. Cambridge's best disco, the mainly black Rise Club, sits on top of a rickety brick office building here...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Pinball, Disco, Food. It's Found in Cambridge | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...Canadian Club: the official organization for the 70-odd citizens from north of here. They try to keep in touch with Ottawa politics through occasional dinners and meetings. They also throw big parties...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Sign Up, Please | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...Advocate: America's oldest college publication. In a cozy building behind Kirkland House, artsy intellectuals gather around a big table to determine what poetry, prose and graphics will fill the quarterly. The quality of the contributions is erratic--some are outstanding. But the Advocate's reputation as the best party-giver on campus offsets its tough comps...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Sign Up, Please | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...Catholic Student Center: servers of big spaghetti dinners. The Catholic Center sponsors get-togethers throughout the year, and they're generally enthusiastic...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Sign Up, Please | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...nauseatingly sweet smell of incense (burned to cover the odor of dope) and the stench of old beer permeated the dorm. Music blared from every corner of the Yard, while huge groups of drunken men huddled and leered at women going from party to party. I got asked the big four questions--name, school, career plans, SAT scores--so often I could recite them in seconds (although I refused, as a matter of principle, to talk scores). After one night of parties, I'd had enough. I didn't want to meet any more people out to prove...

Author: By Susand D. Chira, | Title: Welcome to my Night-mare | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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