Word: dozen
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...Harvard Wireless Club got its start in 1909 under the leadership of Professor George Washington Pierce, a pioneer of radio communications. Today, about a dozen undergraduate, graduate, and alumni members regularly frequent the club’s 6 Linden Street station...
...tenable for [the] president to have nearly 3 dozen direct reports as in [the] current structure," he added...
...demands that calls for student representation in Harvard’s administrative bodies. UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 said undergraduates should be represented committees with policy-making power, and not only advisory committees. Currently, students sit with faculty members on at least a half-dozen committees, but the recommendations of those committees can be overturned by Harvard administrators, Petersen said. “Too often the administration allows students and faculty to participate in University governance in only a superficial way,” Petersen said. The UC plans to submit the list of grievances...
...smell of braised pork wafting out of a communal kitchen, hear the slap of a shuttlecock struck by a pajama-clad girl, catch a glimpse of a chandelier in a threadbare bedroom-once part of a ballroom in some silk merchant's mansion, now subdivided to house a dozen families. Yet I know this Shanghai-my Shanghai, Girard's Shanghai-is vanishing. All that will be left are these phantom images, a visual elegy to a city that is lost...
...politicians are determined to have the last laugh next year: they want to move the state's Presidential primary balloting to January 29 - a full week before the February 5 "Super Tuesday" primaries that will include heavyweights like California and New York as well as more than a dozen other states...