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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is a lot more. The inspectors apparently went to ridiculous and illegal extremes to hassle the owners of the Ye Old Grist Mill, Coffee Connection and the Cambridge Food Coop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pulp | 7/2/1976 | See Source »

...Schlitz is a Schlitz, etc. There is, naturally, a lot more variation in price--if not surroundings--among restaurants in the Square and out. Let's get one thing out of the way immediately: by general consensus, Locke-Ober's in Boston is the best restaurant in this section of the country, at $15 a person. See you and your parents over at Anthony's Pier Four tonight, and likewise for brunch next Sunday at the Prudential Building's Top of the Hub, where bloody Marys and eggs abound at a moderately high expense. For the same meal, local hacks...

Author: By Seth Kaplan and James I. Kaplan, S | Title: Getting around the Square | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...important thing in your forays is initiative. Harvard Square is potential quicksand--it's all too easy to get stuck in the belief that there's actually something going on there, when in fact it's just a place where a lot of people are trying to sell you things. Not to be inhospitable, but get out, as often as you can and for as long...

Author: By Seth Kaplan and James I. Kaplan, S | Title: Getting around the Square | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

Admission to the track is cheap--75 cents in these days, when lousy seats in the Fenway bleachers run at twice that much. But you're almost certain to spend and possibly gain a lot more than that--without putting money on it, there just isn't that mush aesthetic interest in watching baying 70 lb. beasts barking, gasping and snapping after a tiny fake rabbit ten yards ahead of them on the track, attached to some weird automatic device...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Going to the Dogs | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

Ellen McCormick received a lot of attention in the media this year with her right-to-life campaign, but there's a guy in the Square who has been on the case for years. He works in the subway station and Out-of-Town-News, pacing back and forth with his "Abortion is Murder" sandwich board sign. The best times to catch him are lunch and rush hours--apparently he's called in a time-management group to figure out the times he's likely to get the best exposure from his message...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square, Sweet Square | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

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