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Word: hums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...address the World Food Conference at the U.N., now travels around schools in the east and south, collecting material for his book. Gallanty is insightful and clear-thinking--not one of your fried-on-dope types. To the best of my knowledge, Gallanty plays no instruments, though he might hum and probably whistles. He is in Cambridge for three weeks; meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOLK | 5/12/1977 | See Source »

...daily post-beach college party (reservations required), and the participants this day were Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Delaware and Oswego State. The entrants take part in three competitions--a banana-eating contest (the Nat Sci), a beer-chugging relay (the Soc Sci), and a wet tee-shirt event (the Hum)--with one school emerging as the overall victor. Sort of like the Olympics, if you know what I mean...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Reeling and Peeling | 4/12/1977 | See Source »

Overall, the core curriculum issue is not developing into a question about how to categorize the core areas. Most people agree that the present trinity of Nat Sci, Soc Sci and Hum are too broad, and that a greater number of smaller categories are desirable...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Another Plan for The Core | 3/26/1977 | See Source »

...every golfing scene I remember over the years the crowd plays its part. How often have I seen it--how often, alas! have I described?--John Ball starting down the first hole in a great match with a rose in his button hole, with the trampling and the hum of the prayerful Hoylake crowd behind him, held back by the blue-jerseyed fishermen manning the rope. To ancient hero-worshippers of my generation there never was and never can be again so moving a spectacle as that. But others, second only to it, come back. There is Bobby Jones winning...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: A Grand Writer a', Nane Better | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...task force has recommended that the College replace its current General Education and distribution requirements with a series of core courses in eight areas that are far more specific than Nat Sci, Soc Sci and Hum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Progress | 3/12/1977 | See Source »

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