Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should it be forgotten what the faculty was reacting to what the Core emerged in 1977 to 1978. General Education by then was composed not of a handful of broadly gauged inquiries into the very best that had been thought and writers but was a heterogeneous grab-bag of unrelated courses. In its place the Core-makers tried to create a program that (1) fostered the intellectual breadth of all Harvard students: (2) took account of the disciplinary revolution in academic life and did not sinfuly invade the time traditionally set aside for concentrations and electives...
Senior Tom Verdin filled Chappell's spot as anchor on the opening 400 medely relay sealing a Crimson win in 3:28.81. The Leverest House resident came back in the 200 IM to grab individual win with a 1:56.33 clocking...
Harvard arrived 45 minutes before match time and immediately took the courts to get used to the cool temperatures and establish its rails. "Penn likes to start early and grab control of a match before the visiting team has a chance to get used to the courts," team manager Tom Bator said "So it was important that they get on the courts quickly...
...trainees' day begins at 6 a.m. with the banging of a giant (25-ft.) drum, which rouses them from sleep in their dormitory bunk beds; each room has eight workers from different companies. They don their all-white clothes, usually sweat shirts and sweatpants, grab brooms, and clean their quarters. They then line up for a flag raising, singing Kimigayo, the national anthem...
...purge of veteran Scientologists quickly followed the takeover. Bill Franks, 26, was thrown out of his office in Clearwater in December 1981 and fired as Scientology's executive director. "It's just a power grab," he says of the new leaders' acts. Their motive, he charges, is "totally money, absolute greed." Bent Corydon, chief of the mission in Riverside, Calif., which was one of the church's largest (1,000 members), claims that dark-shirted "finance policemen" demanded that he turn over $40,000 in the mission's treasury. He complied, and has since...