Word: firstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...temperature had climbed up to 98,6. With an embarrassed smile. she kept putting the thermometer back in my mouth until I finally reached 97,8. The man sitting next to me had been told to "warm up" for 15 minutes when he could not push his first temperature reading above...
...girl across the table told me how the nurses gave her "a double arm." The first nurse missed her vein so another nurse tried her luck on the other arm. The guy next to me said he was giving blood to protest the war. I did not have any pat answer explaining my reasons, but part of it was because giving blood is like giving money to charity-except it gets under your skin a lot more...
MONDAY was the first day of December and the first real snowfall. It was cold and quiet and flavored with post-vacation inertia. Monday night the U.S. government, as if waiting for a tranquil moment, pulled oil the piece de resistance of all its absurdities...
...issue of unusual significance which had barely squeaked through two appointed committees, President Pusey did not even ask the Faculty for its opinion. Brooks sprung the decision on the Faculty for the first time at a meeting last Tuesday, telling them he was speaking "for the information of the Faculty, not for action...
...also a member of the first college soccer team in the U.S. when he played at Haverford...