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Word: carding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those rules consist of academic requirements, registration and study card dates, prerequisites and selection for courses of limited enrollment, dormitory rules, maintaining a satisfactory record, and more...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Better Mousetrap | 2/16/1979 | See Source »

...searched University Hall, Massachusetts Hall, Quincy House, and Widener Library. There wasn't even a reference card...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: In Search of Crimson | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

...driver collects their $65 balance. In cash. "Travelers checks are too hard to handle," the voice on the phone had said. Only 20 people get on; the rest are waving goodbye. Instead of regular rows of seats two sofas face the aisle up front. Beyond that, amidships, is a card table, one side supported by a length of nylon rope tied to a metal ceiling rack. A long, cushioned sleeping platform, raised about 2 ft. off the floor, fills the whole rear half of the bus. The ponytailed bus driver (there are two drivers aboard) tells people to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hippie Bus from Coast to Coast | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

People start falling asleep early. By flipping a few panels, the sofas and card table turn into more sleeping platforms. By 2 a.m. there are sleeping bags as far as the eye can see. As the passenger stumbles among them a voice hisses, "There is room here!" It's Adam. He whispers that he is a biologist from M.I.T. Maybe that explains the scrape. He was "designing an incurable virus," he says, when he realized what he was doing. He's been on the road for several weeks sorting things out. Daybreak and breakfast in Arizona. Sleeping bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hippie Bus from Coast to Coast | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...other operations. As supplies diminish, more and more oil firms are limiting deliveries of both leaded and unleaded to dealers. Two weeks ago Texaco joined American Petrofina and Phillips Petroleum in allocating supplies, and last week Chevron sought Government permission to take similar steps. Says Texaco Vice President Annon Card: "If demand keeps going up, we'll have even greater problems as we get closer to the peak driving season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lines at the Pumps Again? | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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