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Word: learned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phone that rings only once an hour (besides Herman's freshman year)? How about answering a phone that rings only two or three times a day? That happened to Debbie, a freshman who thought it would be interesting to work in a real estate office. "I thought I'd learn more about real estate," she says...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: How I Didn't Spend My Summer Vacation | 9/25/1987 | See Source »

...this society. Only this morning I received in the mail a campaign letter from Senator Howard Metzenbaum requesting support in his fight against a red-baiting smear directed at him by extremist elements in the Ohio Republican party. The Senator will no doubt be even more saddened to learn that a Harvard professor has suffered the same injury from one of his own students. Orlando Patterson

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Re: Confi Write-Up | 9/25/1987 | See Source »

WILSON aims for verisimilitude in his diner's atmosphere, which means that all 22 characters are often talking at once. It takes some time for the audience to learn which conversations to listen to at any moment, or even which character is which. Still, most of the characters, like musicians, have in their dialogue recognizable themes and rhythms. Director Paul Dervis deserves praise for his orchestration of this symphony of fear and loathing, keeping it somewhere between the rigidity of a baroque set of variations and the looseness of a free-form jazz improvisation...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Sleaze On Down the Road | 9/25/1987 | See Source »

...only will influence the political future of the city but also will be a telling sign for all of America, where unfortunately racial divisions have become more noticeable in recent years. Vrdolyak's response is not a promising omen for the American future. Hopefully other white politicians will learn to accept Blacks on equal terms...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Eddie Pulls a Fast One | 9/22/1987 | See Source »

...City Hall goin' to wake up to the fact that kids up at PBH are doing just what Senator Kennedy is tryin' to do. I suggest that Senator Kennedy and Bank of Boston get in touch with officials in the Phillip Brooks House at Harvard and they will learn a "thing or two" on tutoring kids with their "readin' 'n' writing'." VIVA PBH! Al Vellucci Vice Mayor of Cambridge

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Readin' 'n' Writin' | 9/22/1987 | See Source »

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