Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...museum is the Walk Through Computer 2000, a two-story working Pentium computer with a giant keyboard, trackball and monitor. It's an eerie experience to actually maneuver through a computer like the one you have in your dorm room, down to the pickup-truck sized 3Com card inside...
...shows that most slang terms describe sexual activity or genitalia, or derive from the private lingo of a few groups: the underworld, students, the military, drug users and African Americans. Some terms are merely colorfully descriptive: a No-Tell Motel (1974) is a cheap trysting place; an Oklahoma credit card (1966) is a siphon tube used for stealing gasoline; a kiskeedee (1857) is a French-speaking person who is unable to understand English and keeps asking, "Qu'est-ce qu'il dit?" (What is he saying...
...southern Sudan was beginning to wane. Seaman and the MSF staff had treated about 19,000 patients, principally by administering daily injections of Pentostam. Keeping track of up to 1,400 patients at a time, most of whom were unable to read, required the creation of a massive card-filing system and the training of a competent local staff. Family members were taught to fill syringes to lines marked with tape and then to administer the doses themselves. "Jill Seaman has treated more cases of kala-azar than anyone else in the world," says Dr. Robert Davidson, senior lecturer...
...Fake cards, printed on the same stock of paper as the real invitations, had the Pudding's insignia printed slightly off-center. A first-year's name and room number was handwritten on one side, with the insignia printed on the reverse. The real invitation had a border around the card and was stamped with either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, informing invitees of when to attend...
Students in Fried's class expressed sympathy for the professor, and many of them signed a card for him in class on Wednesday...