Word: cantabrigian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some extent, a junkyard is a junkyard no matter where it is located. Yet, like almost everything in town, the Cantabrigian junkyard has some special features that distinguish it from the plain-old-ordinary-run-of-the-mill variety. Unlike the neatly piled, sprawling yard of rusted cars and buses depicted in the movie Nashville, or the mountainous heaps of uncategorized wrecks in the swamps east of Baltimore, or the medium-sized backyard and field lots of suburban Boston, the Cambridge yard is severely limited in size. Since the average junkyard here is no larger than a half-acre...
...Jones, new to the job, already has encountered massive troubles. His biggest headache, he says, is that he doesn't live in Cambridge but in Belmont, a factor that considerably reduces his legitimacy in some Cantabrigian eyes. But Jones insists, "Just because I sleep 300 yards from Cambridge shouldn't mean anything. I spend most of my life here. My friends and job are here and the things I care about are here--so why should it matter...
...Cross game is billed as Cambridge Day, where residents of the city with the proper ID can get into these sections at a buck a head. The Rutgers game is being called Family Day, which is the same as Cambridge Day only you don't need to be a Cantabrigian to take advantage of the discount...
...average Cantabrigian probably feels Harvard's presence most directly when paying his rent--over 80 per cent of the city's residents are tenants. Rent levels in the Boston area are the highest in the country, and Cambridge rents are the highest in Boston. The tremendous demand for housing in the area, caused by the influx of young people attracted to a university community, has made Cambridge a haven for real estate speculators...
Jenkins brought his Cantabrigian cage career to a close by moving to fourth place on the Crimson alltime scorers list. His 17-point tally, added to Friday's 15 against Yale, inched the three-year starter just over the magic 30 he needed to surpass Bill Dennis (1074). Jenkins's varsity total, 1077 points, leaves him behind only Dale Dover (1201), James Brown (1242) and Keith Sedlacek...