Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inferno had ever erupted in a Quad dorm in the '60s, Radcliffe women were supposed to know what to save first: the "body book," the dreaded ledger in the front hall where undergraduates had to sign out and in. By saving that record, the dean of residence could tell who had safely escaped the burning building...
...Radcliffe dorms served milk and cookies on Saturdays for the unlucky--thus advertising the shame, Rosenblum notes. A woman's social life was a matter of public record in the dorms, since all calls went through the bell's desk and interested residents constantly leafed through the sign-out ledger...
...that time, the mores of two decades before were indeed antiquated For four years, Radcliffe students had debated the wisdom of sign-outs, with some saying that the public ledger would enforce morality (defined as not sleeping with a man), while others maintained it was a harbinger of a tight-reined past. Rosenblum says she cannot remember anyone considering sign-outs a moral issue. "We all thought it was sheer authoritarianism," she adds. Finally in the fall of 1969, the parietals and signouts suddenly disappeared...
...turned them into a string of profit makers that stretched from Alabama to Oregon. In the 1950s he started buying already lucrative properties, among them Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue. His family-owned dominion (he had all the voting stock) now encompasses 29 newspapers (biggest: the Newark Star-Ledger and the Cleveland Plain Dealer), seven magazines, five radio stations and a score of cable TV systems. Running his empire out of a battered briefcase, Newhouse cared little about his papers' content and read only their bottom lines. Said he: "Only a sound business operation can be a truly independent...
...ledger shows a 19-36 record after two years. The friendly sportswriter will shrug off the first year (11-15, 7-7 Ivy) by saying that McLaughlin inherited a fecund crop from his predecessor...