Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Young Milne did not get to know his father until he was old enough to go away to prep school, and like many an Englishman, he seems to owe more kindness and wisdom to his nanny than to his parents. The book shows greater nostalgia for the land around Crotch-ford, the family place near Ashdown Forest, than for the world's most famous stuffed animals. But yes, dear reader, the Six Pine Trees, the Hundred Acre Wood, Galleon's Lap (where Pooh and C.R. said their last goodbye), Christopher Robin's tree house and the Pooh...
Despite a cautiously worded statement from Rosenfeld that "there is absolutely no relation between these actions [the forgeries] and the inability to reproduce our reported laboratory findings," the experiments have been put aside. "We haven't done a prep [of the experimental material] in quite a while," Potter said recently...
...exceptional scholar-athletes that may appear. Humenuk, a lawyer from Chestnut Hill, has been at the job for an exhausting four years. In that time he has tried to redirect, as much as one man can, the Harvard admissions office from choosing solely from Philadelphia's more prestigious prep schools--as has always been the case--to at first some unexamined outer suburban schools, and then the forgotten parochial and inner city schools...
...Fifty-six per cent of the Harvard class and 33 per cent of the Radcliffe class received financial aid. Sixty-five per cent of the class went to public schools, a slightly higher percentage than in preceding years. However, more students were accepted from traditional prep schools than in the previous several years...
...like the books in a faculty office, and I commented as extensively as I could on which glazes and shapes I liked the best. They all looked pretty much the same to me, but the photographer had liked me ever since I didn't realize he'd gone to prep school, and I guess I was trying to live up to his expectations. "I like this green one." I would say, pointing to a pot that was unmistakable blue. When he seemed hurt. I'd say it was just a slip of the tongue, and he never looked too suspicious...