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...rolled to a 12-0 halftime lead, taking advantage of the sloppy Crimson backfield play. Only Albala's running dropkick near game's end saved Harvard from the big doughnut...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: Rugby Squad Splits Twin Bill; B Team Captures 'Beanpot' | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...pair of enterprising Holworthy freshmen are attempting to turn the Freshmen reading period doughnut give-away into a profit-making "student center...

Author: By Robert Baggott, | Title: Union Snack Shop Open Now to Battle Late-Night Munches | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...ways of delivering the Pill's key steroids-estrogens and progesterones-in smaller and therefore less dangerous doses. One device being tested by Dr. Daniel R. Mishell of the University of Southern California School of Medicine seems to hold unusual promise: it is a small (two-inch diameter), doughnut-shaped flexible plastic ring that a woman can insert into her vagina. It prevents conception, not by blocking the sperm, as does the diaphragm, but by releasing a small steady trickle of steroids into the bloodstream through the mucous membranes of the vagina. The quantity is sufficient to prevent ovulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Control: New Look at the Old | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...when D.H. Lawrence was underfoot. Her voice is laconic, styleless, arrow straight to the point. About one of her pictures of bleached pelvic bones, she notes: "I was the sort of child that ate around the raisin on the cookie and ate around the hole in the doughnut. So probably-not having changed much -when I started painting pelvic bones I was most interested in the hole in the bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: GIFT BOOKS | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...where the Yankee shot you." Acquaintanceship? "We've howdied but we haven't shook." Crowding? "There's not room enough in here to skin a cat without getting hair in your mouth." If things are going well, "life's just a slide on a doughnut." There is also the Southern man who lies so much that he needs someone else to call his dog. Similes fall like raindrops: slow as a pond, high as a pine, sorry as gully dirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Just a Tad Different | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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