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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Again? Sure, the process must continue until we are at last left with one "Final Member" who is the possessor of a room that only he may enter. At last we have achieved the ultimate social utopia: complete isolation...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG: | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

Finn's invited guests for the 6 p.m. table include North House residents Laureen A. Mulkern '87, Dickie M. McEvoy '86-'87, and Allen H. Bourbeau '87-'88, possessor of what Finn calls "a prototypical Boston accent...

Author: By Adam Schwartz, | Title: 'Pahk Your Cah' at the Beantown Accent Table | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

...sectors of the law take a rather laissez-faire attitude towards fake i.d.'s. According to William McCarthy of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission (ABCC), the arm of the state government that administers and revokes liquor licenses, "Historically the commission has not been taking any disciplinary action against the possessor of a [fake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fake I.D.'s: Easy to Come By, Harder to Use | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

Thomas Alva Edison, possessor of 1,093 patents, advertised with as much genius as he invented. The flyer for the early phonograph had a likeness of Uncle Sam, and the copy said, "Uncle Sam takes off his hat." Edison called the phonograph the Triumph. He made a million. -By Gregory Jaynes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: A Convention for Inventions | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...whose name was Lyle Wolf, was from Los Angeles. One of a growing number of novices in the trade, he had allowed romanticism to overtake him a couple of years ago, chased the ghost of Thornton Wilder across the continent, and set himself up as a country squire, the possessor of a first-edition mortgage-Bob Newhart with a plumber's helper. His wife's name was Barbara, and Barbara was saying, over wine, that she had a relative hurt in a Corvair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Keeping Up with Keeping Inns | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

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