Word: carding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rudd stubbornly declined aid and limped home. The policeman did not bother to take down his name; except for a call to his credit-card companies, Rudd made no effort to report the as sault. "What was the use?" he sighs...
...careless enough to lose your Study Card, you will be instructed at the Registrar's Office to go to Room 812 for a replacement. Which is of little interest in itself. What is of interest is that, on the main desk in Room 812, you will see a two-page Xerox edition of "Directive on the Typing of Study Cards." You may read it as you wait, though to do everyone justice, the wait isn't long. The directive describes at length the fine points of study-card-typing . . . how to clean typewriter keys, what sort of eraser...
...WILLIAM CARD Professor of English Chicago State College Chicago...
...entrance to the exhibit closely parallels the catalogue introduction. Huge interior photographs of Winthrop's New York apartment are displayed--the beautiful objects of his collection crowded into their original setting. Glass cases across from these photographs hold his undergraduate notebooks, a Christmas card from his art dealer, a letter to the National Gallery explaining why Winthrop was choosing to give his collection to Harvard instead of to it, and a bronze portrait of him executed by his daughter...
...Barabbas? Selling bigger is the Ten Commandments Bible Game, by Cadaco, Inc., of Chicago. Equipment includes a board map of the Holy Land, cards quoting the Commandments, and disks representing pieces of silver and harvest baskets of grain, fish, olives and grapes. To win, a player must collect all Ten Commandments by completing various Good Samaritan acts. Cadaco has sold about 600,000 of the games. And then there is Bible Bowling, in which marbles are rolled down a miniature bowling alley into holes. Depending on what hole the marble lands in, a card 'is selected by the bowler...