Word: frame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suggested coffee one October afternoon so that she could drop off my winter coat. I was a little late and caught a glance of her scrutinizing the dry oatmeal cookies, the rust-colored, checked blazer my father had picked out six sizes too big last Christmas dwarfing her tiny frame...
From the day he first set foot onto the "strawberry patch" in Shea Stadium's right field, with the long, lean frame of Ted Williams and the prodigious speed of a young Mantle, the man with the fruitiest name in the game was the ultimate baseballer...
BEAMING MOTHERS sifted through their children's acceptance packets on April 1, and for the first time in over a decade, the acceptance certificate--the one that's suitable for framing--was not among the papers and forms. This absence marked the end of a much-beloved tradition. This year, no pre-frosh will have to struggle with the eternal question: to frame of not to frame...
Sterling P.A. Darling III `01 shrugged off nay sayers and did more than simply frame his certificate within a month of receiving it. His freshman year he brought it to Harvard and placed it right over his desk. "I just did it. When you get the admissions packet from Harvard, that's a tangible result." Darling doesn't understand why his fellow classmates did not do the same thing. "Most people once they arrive at Harvard lose the excitement," he says. Still, Darling notes that people did not react badly to his decorating technique. "I think one person [commented...
Yale sophomore Joshua F. Gruenspecht agrees that framing Harvard acceptances is the kind of thing people do in New Haven--he even came close to doing it himself, but eventually decided not to waste the money or the wall space. "The letter I got [from Harvard] said, `Congratulations, you got into Harvard. La da da da da. Here is a certificate you can put in a scrapbook or frame.' I thought, `Boy that's arrogant...