Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seat in the packed theater, after having endured a ten minute Kodak slideshow featuring lots of pictures of ice crystallizing, and dogs, and beaches, and sunsets, and black holes, and umbrellas, and kite-flying, and gap-teethed kids gobbling psychedelic spools of never-eat-anything-bigger-than-yer-head cotton candy, my heart was going pitter-pat. It really was. I, err, looked forward to this thing, this piece of space-detritus with more zeros at the end of its comet-tail budget than the rounded-off totality of the Harvard endowment...
...almost every building in the College and much of the University. The tunnels take their name from the three 10-to-12-inch steam lines which provide Harvard with 100 pounds of steam pressure per square inch. In addition, the tunnels carry electric, telephone, and water lines and the cotton-insulated radio cables of WHRB, the student-run radio station...
...entered this atmosphere of wealthy white society and in 1870 received the first A.B. granted by the College to a Black student. "Rumors inevitably sprang up among his classmates as to his background; he was variously represented as an escaped slave, a genius who had come straight from the cotton field to the College, as a scout in the Union Army, as the son of a rebel general, and so on," the book quotes a Harvard Harvard Alumni Bulletin of 1964. Radcliffe did not grant its first B.A. to a Black woman until 1898, when Alberta V. Scott graduated...
...Nightshirts. You can't have visions of sugar plums unless you're wearing a cozy nightshirt. Brooks Brothers (46 Newbury) offers a traditional 100 percent cotton flannel sleepshirt for $30, and the Banana Republic sells their Artisan's Nightshirt...
...Preppie. Skip and Muffy need toshop too. 100 percent cotton button down oxfordshirt for $38.50 are available at Brooks Brothers,khakis for $45.00 at J. Press (82 Mt. Auburn). Andfor the true blue preppy, L.L. Bean's NorwegianFisherman's sweater...