Word: papering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sure, it's annoying that the institution with the $11 billion endowment is too cheap to pay for a student center, or even a decent Springfest band. But Harvard rightly remains at the top of U.S. News rankings because what counts is not whether we have two-ply toilet paper, but that we benefit daily, in our classes, extracurriculars and dorm rooms from our extraordinary and multi-talented peers...
...Anne of Green Gables' first crappy attempt at writing, when she learns the stuff of literary gold is not in her head, but right next door. That's what I did right, at least once, for this woman, and it made me think that my last piece for this paper better do the same. It better fulfill my reporter's promise to look at life objectively and ask why certain things stand as they do, without neglecting another promise, to tell you how they might be set right...
...didn't like the idea that the paper that I temporarily was in charge of was being seen with such hostility by so many administrators," Fallows says. "I tried, perhaps harder than I should have, to 'make nice...
...past 500 years, we had beengetting our information electronically and then amodern Gutenberg had come along to invent ways toput tin on paper and deliver it to our doorsteps,then we would marvel at what a great newtechnology it was," Isaacson says...
...Paper Back Booksmith, located across the street from the Brattle Street Theater kept its doors open 24 hours a day. A popular student hangout, Booksmith often filled up with customers after a movie finished at the theater across the street...