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Moore, Harvard's chief electrical inspector and elevator guru, is charged with running and maintaining the old and new elevators, the faster ones and the slower ones, the ones that groan going up and those that are programmed to buzz at every floor...

Author: By Carrie L. Zinaman, | Title: Harvard Elevators: So Many Stories | 9/28/1993 | See Source »

...collect call. Ryan had apparently run out of change. The reporter, whose managing editor once refused to accept a collect call of his because of the $10 service fee imposed per call by the University, accepted the call anyway. The president of The Crimson was heard to groan loudly from across the newsroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thank You for Calling... Collect | 7/16/1993 | See Source »

Riding on the T last week, I heard a faint groan, and looked up to see several people shaking their heads as they scanned the Globe's front page...

Author: By James W. Fields, | Title: Budget Lessons from the Past | 2/23/1993 | See Source »

When a federal district judge ruled earlier this month that MIT had violated federal antitrust laws, administrators at many prestigious American universities let out a collective groan...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Continues Overlap Fight | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

GOFFSTOWN, N.H.--As Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton prepared to answer a question on the economy during Sunday night's debate at Saint Anselm's College here, a collective groan went up from the crowd of journalists who had gathered in the makeshift press room...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Campaign Doldrums | 2/21/1992 | See Source »

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