Word: packet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case of attack. Fierce Rhodesian ridgeback dogs roam the grounds, and thick steel mesh covers many windows. Some have even dug sandbagged slit trenches in their yards to provide quick cover. Almost nobody drives after sunset, and evening social life has evaporated. 'This is costing me a packet," says one farmer. "But there's no other life for me. My father farmed here before me, and no bloody blacks are going to drive...
...order that the student body may take full advantage of these admirable Crimson investigative traits, we have a suggestion. For each subscription to The Crimson, it would be a service to posterity to send the corrections column in a packet of printed stick-on labels, so that each reader could take this newly-found information and attach it to The Crimson of the day before. In this way, those of us that collect and treasure The Harvard Crimson as a memento of our college years, may build their collection into an ever more approximately accurate record of daily events...
...people on the Harvard Political Review's large donor list, only 24 expressed any further interest after receiving the packet. Of these, three eventually contributed to the Review, for a total of $52,000. As Saylor later wrote in his report on this failure, "Our rate of return was only 5 per cent on a list that cannot possibly be matched for selectivity," and those returns "appear likely to be one-time contributions rather than a continuing commitment...
Although Harvard has not yet "articulated a financial aid packet" for next year, Kaufmann said that students on scholarship will receive more money...
...costume. They were kind a giggling when they told me, but I figured they were just excited about it. I mean I was getting faced and eating corn and stuff... Anyway I had a tough time thinking up a costume. I couldn't go as a seed packet so I was stuck. Then I glanced at my roommate's bed and got a great idea. So I cut these two holes in his sheet and went as a ghost. Pretty clever, huh? I thought so, but when I got to where the guys told me the party was supposed...