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Word: fittings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Steve was born in Japan, and the family had lived there for several years while his father was Time bureau chief in Tokyo. The Schecters, Steve says, couldn't immerse themselves in Japanese society and attend Japanese schools because "there was almost a racial problem. We just didn't fit in." The children attended American schools in Japan and led basically Western-style lives...

Author: By Michael L.silk, | Title: A Harvard Son Writes His Memoirs On Mother Russia | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

...delivery of an offbeat lecture does not explain the scene, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has not yet seen fit to add courses in highway safety to its curriculum. Rather, the occasion is a morning section of English E, "English as a Foreign Language," Harvard's answer to the needs of many foreign students and faculty members seeking to hone their oral and written skills in the English language...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: The Pedestrian and the Camel | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

...women in the College. When that day comes, Harvard ought to match that $7000 advantage men will have with an equal $7000 restricted to women. Such a step, along with one-to-one admissions and the opening this year of 54 prizes to both sexes, all fit well within Steiner's admirable "policy objective" of ending distinctions between the opportunities available to men and women at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Institutional Sexism | 3/16/1976 | See Source »

Although Murphy's Task Force doesn't fit the traditional man-in-blue image, it can be recognized by the gray berets ("That way we don't shoot each other," one officer explained). "A lot of people think we just hand defendants over to the Cambridge Police," he says. "It's not true. We're a real police department...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: The Gray Berets and Their Computerized Patrols | 3/12/1976 | See Source »

...time for the Harvard basketball team to sit down and have a nice long talk. Without some communication and honest discussion, it should prepare for a few more seasons which fit right into the history of Harvard basketball: non-descript, losing efforts. THE WINS Team Record Pct. Brandeis 10-14 .416 Rochester 8-15 .348 Brown 7-20 .259 B.C. 9-17 .346 B.U. 7-19 .269 Yale 7-20 .259 Cornell 8-18 .308 Columbia 8-17 .320 Total...

Author: By Tom Aronson, | Title: The Long Winter: Uneasiness and 18 Losses | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

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