Word: paper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrests came in two round-ups. In the first, at 2:10 p.m., nine men and a young girl who police said was a juvenile were packed into a paddy wagon in front of Holyoke Center and taken to the Central Square station. The ten had been selling the paper to passers-by along Massachusetts Avenue for less than 90 minutes...
...trim, soft-spoken Hansen, gazing intently from behind rimless glasses, said he would not consider eliminating from the paper's standard vocabulary the four-letter words and sexual allusions that have stirred the ire of two Cambridge mayors, the police, and Governor John Volpe...
Hansen said that Avatar has paid out more than $225 in bail since last Saturday, when nine others were arrested for selling the paper. "To us, it's a lot," he said. "We're down to the wire...
...long as parietal restrictions have been a source of discontent, so has the lecture-exam rote system of instruction. The idea has long been abandoned that a three-hour exam teaches a student more than a term paper or is more conducive to instilling a genuine interest in the material. The freshman seminar program, small-group instruction such as independent studies, and tutorial were introduced as alternatives to the lecture system--and with overwhelming success and popularity. But these programs all started in the 1950's and have expanded little since. Financial considerations have limited their growth...
Evelyn Wood first observed dynamic reading 18 years ago when a professor at the University of Utah read her term paper at an amazing 6000 words a minute. Mrs. Wood's curiosity caused her to look for other exceptional readers, and over the next few years she found 50 people who could read faster than 1500 words per minute with fine comprehension, outstanding recall and great reading satisfaction...