Word: hardwoods
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Situated in a historic former mill, McCain’s New England headquarters are spartan but lively. As the HRC members exit their yellow school bus and make their way through the building’s varnished hardwood halls, they exhibit a determined brand of optimism that is characteristic of those who toil in the labor of love. They’ll spend the day trekking door-to-door to the homes of mostly elderly undecideded voters, hoping to mobilize the more conservative ones to come out in favor of McCain...
...League teams seeking that top spot. We can afford to mess up this weekend. They can’t.HARVARD (5-1, 2-1 Ivy) AT DARTMOUTH (0-6, 0-3 Ivy)It’s Saturday afternoon. You wake up in a strange, unknown place; and judging by the hardwood floor you slept on and the cockroach crawling into your nostril, you come to the vague conclusion that you’re in a River House. Your only memory of Halloween is that the hot gypsy you were dancing with all night went off with that jerk...
...just breaking out of classrooms and professional journals. With a scheme called Dunescape, SHoP proved that blobs could be the basis for a structure both delightful and usable, stable but almost erotic in its waving surfaces. An undulating fabric of wood slats, it formed itself into a kind of hardwood Fallopian tube of pathways, seating, alcoves and canopies...
First-year students spend the Wednesday night before spring break creeping from river House to river House, performing (drunken) rituals and hoping against hope to be placed in a house with hardwood floors (and cockroaches) instead of a shuttle schedule posted on its door. The next morning, they find out which of the 12 undergraduate Houses they’ve been assigned to by reading the contents of an envelope delivered surreptitiously to their room. This week, however, freshmen are not the only students faced with a housing surprise. On Tuesday, Winthrop residents awoke to an e-mail from...
...Crimson players insist that Kuld’s play on the beach has had a positive impact on the team’s success. The versatile star has improved his ball control drastically, increased his vertical leap, and adjusted easily between the sand and the hardwood. Since beach volleyball features only two people per team, the summer training may also have contributed to Kuld’s offensive assertiveness.“He has stepped onto our team being a really reliable, all-around player,” Weissbourd said. “His beach volleyball skills and his court...