Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incubation in the Ringe courts fell far short of Palm Springs in healing power. Both Havens' lost their matches to tie the bout...
...NORTHROP FRYE came to Harvard last year to give the Charles Eliot Norton lecture on poetry, he was greeted with an enthusiasm similar to that granted Christ upon his entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Here, finally, was the redeemer of English Literature and--through some kind of magical transformation--of the humanities. Here was the man who could bring together all of the specialists entrenched in the battlelines of literary criticism--the New Critics, the Freudian, the historical-approachers, the biographical-literati, the "high culture" mongerers, and the platitudinists of Christian and Marxist interpretations of literature. Here...
That's Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, talking about one of Hall's cost accounting devices--a palm-print scanner to crack down on dining hall freeloaders...
...scheme surfaced last summer when, in a move to reduce the number of non-paying persons eating in Harvard dining halls, Hall produced a palm-scanning machine that matched student hand prints with pre-recorded pictures of their hands on the back of students' bursar cards...
...palm of some fool's hand...