Word: flier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COLLEGE PARK, Md.--Playing in conditions satisfactory only to a masochistic kite flier, the Harvard tennis team battled a feisty University of Maryland team and crosswinds gusting to more than 40 miles per hour here yesterday and emerged with a hard-fought, 5-4 victory...
...their canvassing drive SASC members will hand out their flier "Harvard and South Africa" and take a "low-key" approach in clearing up any misunderstandings students may have and in encouraging them to sign the petitions, Molyneux said...
...extension." A major attraction of kiting is that it is a peaceful pastime in which competition evokes more ahs than urrghs. It can also be one of the least expensive of sports. The traditional two-stick diamond costs only about 500; its major maker, the 56-year-old Hi-Flier Manufacturing Co. in Decatur, Ill., sells millions of them yearly. An exotic 45-ft. dragon made of Mylar costs only about $8, while a large tetrahedral model sells for $20. (On the other hand, fancier, higher-flying kites can cost up to $2,000.) A 500-ft.-long...
Played with appropriate panache by Stuart Wilson, he is a handsome figure of dash and romance, the highest flier of a high-living crowd. "I feel like a starving man when someone gives him food," is the way Anna describes her feelings to ward...
...idea of a writing center, or in the words of one flier, "A drop-in center for persons interested in working on their writing with some company," had been circulating among the Expository Writing faculty for years. It had long recognized the inadequacy of a single term of Expos to serve a student's writing needs. Finally, last spring, Donald Byker, asstant director of Expository Writing, decided something should be done and asked Weinstein and Joan Bolker, each of whom bears the elegant title of Preceptor in Expository Writing, to organize the center. Assistant Director of Expository Writing Byker agreed...