Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, University planning officials said that while the new zoning severely limited the size of new construction on the lot, it does not alter the types of structures that Harvard can build. The new zoning allows for a building 45 feet high with a total floor area of 52,500 square feet...
Harvard Book Store (1256 Mass. Ave.) is the best for browsing. It has a wide selection of just-released hardcovers and new paperbacks. The strongest stock is in women's studies, black studies and sociology. And its used books--it has an entire floor downstairs--are a plus. It usually has some of the most frequently used textbooks for half-price or less, and a lot of good fiction for less than a dollar a book...
...bitter testimonies of others. One of three children of a utility-company executive, the Iowa-born, Nebraska-bred Carson came from a rigid, authoritarian family. "Once when he was drunk," recounted Truman Capote, a frequent Tonight show guest, "he told me that his mother would throw herself on the floor and scream, 'I bore you from these loins, and you do this to me! All that pain, and this is what I get in return...
...word evokes quaint images of cabinetmakers or alchemists teaching eager youths the secrets of their trade. Yet apprenticeship -- the acquisition of knowledge through practice in the presence of a master -- is a time-tested teaching method whose applications go far beyond the shop floor. The principle is at work every time someone takes a total-immersion language lesson, follows a doctor on his rounds to learn how to practice medicine, or tags along with a crack dealer to learn the ropes of the drug trade. In fact, a body of scientists and educators maintains that it is the primary means...
...back while a group of 40 hungry women and children rushed into the Boerio and grabbed as much milk, flour and sugar as they could carry. As they fled, the ransacking began in earnest. Young, strapping men armed with crowbars knocked spaghetti, oranges and hunks of meat onto the floor as they rushed to scoop up groceries. Others carted off boxes of laundry detergent, frozen foods and toilet paper into their Peugots, Volvos and even waiting taxis. Within 20 minutes they had destroyed the bakery at the rear of the store, smashed out the windows and broken open the cash...