Word: item
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard was founded on Oct. 28, 1636, when the Boston General Court approved a motion to spend 400 pounds to found a college in the area. It was not a hot issue--the motion was the last item on a busy schedule that included prohibiting the sale of lace and awarding five pounds to a sailor who lost an eye while on a voyage to Block Island...
...lamas and to state tradition, this was still insufficient proof of the child's identity. For a more definitive test, the monks placed several of the deceased Dalai Lama's personal possessions before the boy, along with an equal number of skillfully-wrought replicas. The child chose the right item every time. Finally, the lamas examined the child for the eight birthmarks that reputedly identify the Dalai Lama. From large protruding ears and marks like a tiger's skin on his legs to two vestigal bits of skin on his shoulders representing the third and fouth arms of the Bodhisattva...
Take, for example, one unusual item on the expense side of this year's budget. The Faculty is paying the Kennedy School of Government $250,000 over three years to buy out the K-School's half of the library in Littauer. The K-School shared the library with the Economics and Government Departments until it moved to its new building last year...
...must have been a stunt double who wrote that item about me and The Legend of Walks Far Woman [Sept. 3] The truth is that I have done most of my own stunt work, much more than the insurance company would have liked, suffering numerous injuries in the process...
...insisted last week that her source for the column was not the FBI but "a journalist" whom she would not name. Said Haber: "I am beginning to wonder who my best friends are. Obviously, if I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have printed the item. It's absolutely shocking and appalling. I can now have no trust in anybody...