Word: culling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pusey administration's ability to cull Harvard alumni dollars shows the success of Reynold's formula. Pusey's fundraisers racked up an additional $125 million through the remainder of his term, making a grand total of $207 million. Money from the drives went for the creation of Medical and Law School development offices, the program for Harvard Science (which eventually built the science center), the Pusey Library, and the International Studies building...
...neighborhoods resembling it in a lot of people's home towns. Broadway in New York is flanked by a similar utilitarian snarl of dingy department stores and stark donut or submarine joints. From my own experience in Midwestern cities of about 200,000 inhabitants or less, I can cull couples and triples of Central Square cafes with blacked out windows and steel doors bearing discreet Budweiser placards, or upper stories rented by optometrists, orthodontists and somebody named Arthur Savage, Tax Acct. Not even the neon camel propped above A Nubian Notion is unique; it glows in Roxbury...
...stop at trying to match up successful triples or quads. Entryways are coordinated by students' interests and proctors who love debating may get a couple of high school debaters in their halls. Similarly, a Harvard administrator who may want to win big in freshman intramurals may try to cull a couple of strong high school athletes for his entry...
...this year. Despite the hard work of its members, NAM has had trouble building any type of sustained movement. It has been a cool spring, as the lonely printers, picketing in the breeze that sweeps through the gates of the Yard, know. But if NAM members are able to cull some student support for the demonstrations they plan for Commencement, some administration officials might still find graduation day pretty hot.CrimsonMary Ridge...
...Latin American players can't hit in the clutch. Reggie Jackson, who emerged under Alvin's tutelage in the late-60s, says the man has the right kind of mind for baseball, but the man's allegedly dictatorial and racist attitude towards Orlando Cepeda certainly hobbled the Baby Cull during his early years...