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Word: purvey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much have the proprietary view of "people out there" as possible patrons of my services--that one not very oppressed must be a full-time doer of good. What little I know I am happy to share, but I no longer have earth-shaking ministrations to purvey. You wanna know about rutabagas, I'll tell you about rutabagas. You wanna know about how to make a correct revolution...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Eulogies and Apologies | 3/17/1973 | See Source »

Herrnstein said yesterday that he was not trying to be hostile to Purvey and that he had simply found a mistake in Purina's Crimson statement which he wanted him to correct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SDS Charges Herrnstein Harassed Grad Students | 12/15/1971 | See Source »

Bluestein also claimed that Herrnstein had refused to sign a form allowing an Ed School student, George Purvin, to take Soc Sci 15 for credit because Purvey printed an advertisement in the Crimson asking the faculty to express disapproval of Herrnstein's article...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SDS Charges Herrnstein Harassed Grad Students | 12/15/1971 | See Source »

...first-born by parents who lack experience in child rearing. Confronted with stern and demanding disciplinarians, for example, the child frequently responds by feeling inadequate-and as a consequence unloved. In a young woman suitably well endowed, Skipper and McCaghy suggest, this sense of inadequacy can inspire her to purvey the only commodity whose value she is sure of: her body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Their Hearts Belong to Daddy | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

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