Word: junior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sixth year in a row, the Harvard junior varsity men's swim team captured the Greater Boston Championships against strong competition from Tufts, MIT, and Boston College, each of which fielded varsity squads...
...junior high school teacher in the Philadelphia school system for the past three years, I have been assaulted four times-three times by parents or older siblings. I have suffered bruised ribs, fingernail lacerations and a mild concussion...
...English. "We fully recognize the benefits of cultural pluralism," says James Ward of the American Federation of Teachers. "But we must be sure that the central effort is to bring students into the mainstream of American life." Some foreign-born parents share his concern. Manuel Llera, principal of a junior high school in California's Sweetwater Union school district, near the Mexican border, has been forced by parental pressure to remove some Chicano children from the bilingual program. Parents, he says, "are afraid that their kids are going to get a second-class education and that they won't learn...
...solidly middle-class section of Hicksville, Long Island, Joel, 28, began piano lessons at four, but also boxed in school and hung out with the sort of hell raisers that would have made Virginia's mother double-lock the door. Here is how he tells it: "You got into junior high, you could go one of three ways. You could be a collegiate, a hitter or a brownie?the kid who wears brown shoes with white socks, carries a schoolbag and always gets the monitor jobs...
...defense was one of our major pluses against Princeton. We played well defensively in our own zone. Our forwards backchecked effectively, aiding our defensemen," Purdy, a junior, said...