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Word: dorme (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many parents seemed to have the same idea in mind, and by 8 a.m., cars and families were filing through in numbers. Students and their parents dragged trunks and crates galore out onto the pavement and hefted them up stairwells in virtually every dorm. The Yard and Union area buzzed with the huffing and puffing of first-years moving in en masse...

Author: By C. REBECCA Suk, | Title: They're Movin' On Up! | 9/8/1991 | See Source »

...Sarah A. Bianchi '95, the problem was not the flights of stairs, but moving her luggage from storage to her dorm. "According to the Science Center, I have the most boxes over there," she said, with some embarrassment. "My parents aren't coming here so we mailed everything...

Author: By C. REBECCA Suk, | Title: They're Movin' On Up! | 9/8/1991 | See Source »

...obvious secular explanation for this hubbub is that America's churches are internalizing the mores of a developed society. Once the automobile, the college dorm and the Pill became almost universally available, it was inevitable that men and women would start their sexual careers earlier and build up longer and more varied resumes. It was also inevitable that the churches would adjust to the new reality. If that meant adjusting traditional interpretations of the Ten Commandments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Church Pews And Bedrooms | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

...friends, Kessler's first target is wonderfully appropriate. The man has always had an obsession with food, and he has certainly never been a nuts- and-berries purist. "I was a fat kid," he says. In college, he was the only student in his dorm who brought an entire refrigerator from home. He kept it stocked with sodas, bagels, cream cheese and cold cuts. At Amherst, he organized a pie-throwing party after negotiating a deal for 200 strawberry- rhubarb pies. In law school he trained on pizza, Chinese food and ice cream. He still has a passion for take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man with the Plan | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

...rope that they fashioned into a ladder with stirrups made of fabric threaded through cardboard salt and pepper shakers. Using hacksaw blades smuggled into the prison in the soles of bathing slippers, the trio managed to saw through two of three Plexiglas panels in a window of their dorm cellblock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Escapes: Flossed and Found | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

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