Word: offered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University of Chicago last winter, but he didn't want to. Instead, Rosovsky worked on revamping Harvard's General Education program. (See story in this section.) Some say that Rosovsky would like to be the next president of Harvard--what other reasons would there be for turning down an offer like that from those nice colleges? P.S.: Rosovsky doesn't talk to anybody...
...rather than soliloquize over the former Indian campground, let us move on into the Yard and see what it has to offer. Here walk the ghosts of Emerson and Thoreau, Kittredge and lots of Lowells; many of the great intellects of American history actually slept in these dorms. But that won't mean beans to you during Freshman Week, you just for here, no ghosts yet. Freshman Week is traditionally the time when Yardlings engage in a sort of mass baptismal rite, tearing around the Yard with anything that will hold liquid and dousing everything that moves. Traditionally, at least...
...hesitation while two very fast computers scanned the possibilities, and Monty started muttering, "He who hesitates laughs last," in a thick Russian accent. "No, no," Suzanne, as Christina Onassis, gently explained, he had it wrong-but never mind: "I can buy you the best course Berlitz has to offer." "Have we been to Berlitz?" Monty, playing Christina's latest husband, Sergei Kauzov, asks plaintively. "No, that's Berlin," she answers...
...years before high-powered auctions, hard-cover houses would circulate manuscripts to their friends in the paperback business. Back would come sealed bids, with the rights going to the highest offer in a one-round competition. In 1957, for example, Fawcett paid $100,000 for rights to James Gould Cozzens' novel of emotional middle-age spread, By Love Possessed. Four years later the same house paid $400,000 for William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich...
...impetus behind the new craze is an improved variety of skate. Borrowing the technology of precision ball-bearing polyurethane skateboard wheels, the new skate wheels offer the wearer an extraordinary maneuverability. Unlike the noisy, steel clamp-ons that kids used to wear, they are smooth and light, gliding over cracked pavement with silent grace and dispelling-deceptively-the fear of falling. Aficionados compare the sensation to that of skiing or surfing. The thrills are not exactly cheap: an assembled pair of wheels, skates and boots cost from $60 to $150, and customized ones can run as high...