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Word: bookbag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began to consider possible explanations for why I was stopped. After all, I did have a Harvard bookbag full of constitutional law books, which must have tipped them off. And, I told myself, we were two Blacks out walking (not running, for some reason) in the vicinity of a crime committed by two Blacks...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Just Doing Their Job? | 5/26/1989 | See Source »

...shelters across the country, the new homeless are attempting to come to terms with their daunting circumstances. Kerry Alston, 24, looks like thousands of other city students as he saunters through Manhattan's crowds on his way to a computer class, a bookbag slung jauntily over one shoulder. But when he leaves the refuge of the classroom, Alston returns to the buzzing confusion of the Fort Washington Armory in New York City, an enormous room that sleeps as many as 900 men. Alston's luck went bad after he lost his job as a security guard last July and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down and Out and Dispossessed | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

President of the Mather House Committee Julie A. Frochle '86, who lost $20 when her wallet was taken from her bookbag, said "From the pattern of theft I assume it's one person, and from the odd times of disappearance it seems planned, but it's hard to believe that anyone in the house would do this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wallet Theft Up At Mather | 11/12/1985 | See Source »

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