Word: emporium
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Evans said that blacks at Harvard "consider irrelevant or trivial" a number of features of life here that "Students at black colleges would cherrish." He cited "instant credit in a major emporium, one of the best libraries in the world, no parietal rules, free seconds in the dining halls, free psychiatric care, the ability to borrow $300 on his signature, and average pay of $2.50 per hour for student employment...
...light-studded metal "branches" arrayed on seven-story-high flagpoles and surmounted by the four-pointed star that represents the First National City Bank of New York. At least so says one of the bank's huffy critics, Walter F. Hoving, chairman of Tiffany & Co., the Manhattan jewelry emporium. In an open letter to the bank, written in the elegant script of a wedding announcement and placed as an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal, Hoving declared: "We are very sad to see that you are once again polluting the aesthetic atmosphere of Park Avenue by lighting that loud...
...Spaghetti Emporium...
...Oxford English Dictionary (abridged) defines emporium as "a pompous name for: the Mart 1839." The Spaghetti Emporium, 33 Dunster Street, is a pompous excuse for a restaurant in Harvard Square. It opens for lunch at 11:30 a.m. and remains open until midnight Sunday through Wednesday and until 1 a.m. Thursday through Sunday...
...would have been minuscule." So the word went out. When the laws tumbled down upon the state, there would be no standing in the door, no fire hoses or dogs. There were exceptions, such as Lester Maddox brandishing his pistol and pick handle in front of his fried chicken emporium, students rioting at the University of Georgia when the first black students were admitted. But Mayor Ivan Allen was the first Southern politician to testify in favor of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and Atlanta became a weekend oasis for civil rights workers from Mississippi and Alabama...