Word: bunching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general attitude of the students here towards studies is perhaps a little difficult to understand. At first one would think Harvard students are a pretty lazy bunch. Eight o'clock classes practically don't exist. A nine o'clock is an atrocity, a ten o'clock only tolerable, while the most popular hours are eleven and twelve o'clock lectures...
...children down there on earth and I'd like to hang around the gate here to meet them." Jesus, Mr. Sunday thought, would reply in these terms: "All right, Bill, just sit down there. They'll come right through here. . . . There's the biggest bunch from St. Louis you ever...
...gravely greeted by the solemn figure of President Hindenburg in tight broadcloth coat and high silk hat. Less formal was an immediately subsequent greeting administered by Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia Otto Braun, who violently shook the Amir's hand. Meanwhile Old Paul von Hindenburg presented a bunch of orchids with ponderous gallantry to Queen Thuraya...
...know why you all hate Tony. He's the only American in Berkenmeer. The rest of us are a bunch of decadent colonials clinging to a transplanted civilization as alien to America as cricket and crumpets. . . . Wheat, iron, coal, power-and we are still living in a world of maple-syrup and whale-oil! . . . Maybe they'll settle it by putting us on reservations like the Indians. They might set New England aside...
...hates steamers. "I love to fight the storm," he continued, "and I love my boat. I am going back to it in a few days; I'm not at home on land. Sailors are the greatest fraternity, and the sailors of wind-jammers are the aristocrats of the bunch. I've been six times around the world, and sailing men are the same all over...