Word: means
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, the term itself. When we mention dropping out, we mean of course. dropping out of school. That's an important clarification: the term has had other uses. It once meant dropping out of society. For some people, maybe without any conscious use of the words, it has meant dropping out of life. This may seem to stretch the words a bit-but the words don't matter...
...played what I call barn-yard basketball tonight," said coach Bob Harrison after the contest. I mean that through the middle of the game we just traded baskets with them. When you get ahead of a team like we did, that's the time you've got to stomp them," he explained...
...matter what detailed methods are worked out for increasing black employment in Harvard construction, one side-effect is probable: the costs of construction here will rise. The exclusion of blacks from most building trades means that few black workers are as skilled at such work as white workers are: hiring more blacks will mean accepting additional costs, in the form of lower-production and/or training expenses. Though Harvard's administrators are justifiably concerned about rising costs in this time of cramped budgets, they should accept them in this case as being the least Harvard can contribute toward the solution...
...what does being suspended mean?" asked Mark Smith '72, one of five named by May at the demonstration. Thursday. "It just means: Look out, Niger, here we come. Being suspended in and of itself means nothing in terms of our individual actions." he said...
...densely occupied moment. "Hooked with a wood into the forest, it will lead you well beyond the pier," states one clue. Does it refer to the golf course owned by Hind's friend Ashley Sill, where one may hook the ball into the trees? Or does it mean the huge fishhook stuck in the ironwood outside the Laurel home, from where Hershey was taken? Or does it refer to his friends Dewey Wood and de Forrest? Most of his acquaintances have the names of plants or trees: Maddy Beecher, Oliver Plane, Ivy Bowles, Lief Lund. John Plante, Cassia Meaning...