Word: content
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mexico, Guatemala and Brazil, heavy rains quickly leached the nutrients from the thin layer of topsoil, rendering the land infertile within a year or two. (The trees had both anchored and nourished the soil.) In other cleared jungles, the sun burned out the soil's valuable organic content...
Though it was no longer exactly the lonely countryside of Thoreau, most tourists, nonetheless, did not seem to mind either the fast hustle or the crowds. Those not prudent enough to reserve hotel rooms weeks in advance seemed content to sleep in their cars, turning on heaters periodically to ward off frost. Others considered it quaint fun to be matched up with locals who turned their homes into "foliage houses"-that is, they rented out their guest bedrooms for $5 to $10 per person. Even the traffic was bearable for true leaf watchers. Said Donna Carpenter, a former New Englander...
...recommendations will come a little later, and will bring on the real problems of the files law. Students will be able to contest the content of their letters through the Registrar's Office and the Committee on Privacy, Accessibility and Security of Records. That stage seems to be what everyone is worried about, and what happens when students challenge their letters of recommendations will determine whether the files law will have a major educational effect on Harvard or just an administrative...
...shown in this country, something called Pas de Deux. In fact, I must have seen it 300 times--it seems like everytime I settle back for some good light feature the distant toot of panpipes (Panpipes!) is heard and this "short" comes on for what seems like days. The content of this vicious bummer is two silouetted dancers--white tights moving slowly in the darkness. The man-figure tippy-toes over to the woman-figure, who keeps darting away and eluding him at the last moment. Several years later, the dancers get together while the "haunting" sounds continue, and eventually...
However, Harvard coach George Ford is hopeful about his team's chances. "The Amherst coach told me that he thought they [Tufts] could be taken," Ford said. "He said they're a talented team but they're very defensive-oriented." Against Amherst, Tufts got an early goal and was content to sit on the lead. "He felt that if a quick goal were scored on them they might lose their poise and two or three goals could be zipped in on them," Ford said...