Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bubbly and innocent. A visitor asks whether it is true that he takes 20% from each sale. "Yes!" he says, beaming. He is delighted to be ringmaster of the classiest and priciest midsummer auction in a state where every third cowshed sells antiques. But now, on the auction block, Withington's rhythm slows. "Twenty-two thousand to 23,000, do I have 23?" He has stopped bouncing. A pause, then "Yes, now 24,000, yes, 25?" A longer pause. Here, if the article on Withington's auction block were merely a blue Canton platter that had peaked...
...conviction of President Bok and Dean Rosovsky, to whom the diversity of the faculty they have helped build is perhaps Harvard's greatest strength. "There aren't many universities in the United States that can cover the same range," boasts Rosovsky. Bok describes the faculty as the "building block on which everything else rests." Harvard's president has a time trying to stand on that block. In one of his first meetings with the faculty, Bok began to explain his view of the role of the university. From the back row came a whisper: "We are the university." Observers such...
...Thar was three bars: Mama Bar, Papa Bar, and Baby Bar. They was all sittin' on a block of ice. Mama Bar said 'I got a tale to tell.' Papa Bar said 'I got a tale to tell.' Baby Bar looked up and said 'My tale is told...
Harvard spared no effort to ensure the safe passage of Charles, Prince of Wales, off campus yesterday, closing a three-block stretch of Mass. Ave., lining it with 60 policemen, and assembling a 20-vehicle security motorcade for the royal guest's minute-long drive up Quincy...
...block away from Leverett House stands a church-owned parking lot which the University plans to lease to build student dormitories. Adams House Co-Master Jana Kiely proposed that Harvard lease the land, satisfy its own housing needs, and then set aside a portion for homeless families and a center for socially concerned students...