Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Santiago's college career ended on a down-note when Harvard dropped The Game for the second straight year, thus losing a share of the Ivy title...
...Government also said that during the past three months, the consumer price index dropped at a 4.3% annual clip, the steepest decline in 37 years. Again, economists note a disturbing trend beneath the surface. Most of the CPI's dip has been the result of falling oil prices, which are now starting to rise again...
...piers 30-32, Dave Graham in his windbreaker resembled a small blue buoy. As BB-63 slowly eased to a berth, Graham was moving his arms briskly and systematically as if conducting an orchestra. Four stories up on the ship's signal deck, Chief Signalman Mike Kennedy took note. While others ogled the U.S.O. dancers on the dock, he broke out a small pair of blue and white pennants, known as papa flags, and returned to the rail. In his hands, the flags began to speak back. Before the final lines were secure, Kennedy had invited retired Senior Chief Signalman...
...indeed, Langdon and Hess make reasonable cases that fast-food restaurant design is the snappiest, purest expression of the American Zeitgeist at mid-century: architecture as billboard advertising, billboard advertising as architecture. Both authors note that the germs of the modern strip were the work of serious architects, not anonymous commercial draftsmen...
...album, he saw 72 photos of World War I scenes, four of which showed a man who appeared to be the young Adolf Hitler. Other items, bearing the monogram A.H., convinced Massman that the apartment had once been Hitler's. Massman sent the memorabilia home to Chicago with a note telling his wife to remove the pictures and use the book for photos of their newborn daughter. Instead, Mrs. Massman stashed the album in the attic...