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Word: note (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Company spokesmen acknowledge the complaints. But they point to the broad streets, well-tended lawns and gardens and bright modern houses in the new settlements, and note that the complaints usually dwindle when people move into their new homes. Says Willi Kaiser, the burgomaster of Bedburg, which includes the village of Kaster: "In the end people are usually satisfied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Playing That Ace in the Hole | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question of Hume not by baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we first note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beating the System | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

November 3, 1970. I spent two and a half hours tonight trying to figure out how to apply for tickets to the Yale football game. (Note: that's how a sophomore talks: "the Yale football game." Later, after purchasing my first chamois shirt from L.L. Bean's and generally getting "with it," I too learned to call it The Game...

Author: By Joseph D. Bertagna, | Title: Ten Historic Moments for the Harvard Athlete | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

...Note: the ten experiences that the author relates are his own yet common to many who have experienced the Harvard athletic scene in the last decade...

Author: By Joseph D. Bertagna, | Title: Ten Historic Moments for the Harvard Athlete | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

...Surely, someone is kidding me. This must be the annex to Cambridge High and Latin. It is bad enough that this building exists. It is worse that I am inside it. It is appalling that I am here to take something called a swimming test. (Note: in 1969, freshman had to take their swimming tests sans bathing suits, adding to the dignity of the experience.) No one ever talks about this place. Not even the basketball coaches. Particularly the basketball coaches...

Author: By Joseph D. Bertagna, | Title: Ten Historic Moments for the Harvard Athlete | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

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