Word: lugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Encourage "lug-a-mug" programs, in order to reduce the number of paper cups...
Imagine: You arrive at Harvard for the first time. Your parents help you lug your bags up four flights of stairs. You enter the common room and meet and greet your three new roommates and try to match them to the names you received by mail three weeks ago: "Hey, you must be John Jayman, from New York!" But no, John is missing. You shrug and assume that he's late. But as the days pass, your roommate Alex eventually calls the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) to inquire. He gets off the phone and drops the bomb "John switched...
...titled "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The plot is drastically different. In the tale, immortalized in a short Disney cartoon, Ichabod Crane is a thin, lanky schoolteacher with romantic designs on a local landowner's daughter, Katrina Van Tassel. In Crane's way is Brom Van Brunt, a big lug who frightens Crane with a story about the Headless Horseman--a rumored supernatural denizen known for his penchant for swiping the heads of the locals. Crane has an encounter with this spirit at the end of the story, but the narrator makes it seem very likely that the whole thing...
...knows for sure why pennies are disappearing. A big factor, though, clearly is people's low regard for the things. Few carry them to spend or are willing to lug heavy sacks to the bank. James Benfield of the Coin Coalition, a lobby group for eliminating the penny, figures that 25% of annual penny production ends up in landfills...
Renting appliances may be an option of convenience, especially if you don't want to lug a newly-bought refrigerator or bulky fan back to the homestead once Aug. 15 rolls around. Check out the Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) Campus Store. HSA offers deals for renting tall 30" fans ($15 plus $15 deposit), refrigerators ($55 plus $35 deposit), microfridges ($105 plus $50 deposit), televisions and telephones. The Campus Store also sells lamps ($9 and up), helpful for brightening gloomy Yard accommodations...