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Word: quiets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vote has worked so far on a budget of less than $8,000.) Instead they fiddled with procedure. It is ironic that in two days of talks, in the tightly secured, red carpeted, chandeliered caucus room of the Russell Senate Office Building, no one so much as mentioned the quiet revolutions going on in places like Chicago or Boston...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Myth and Reality | 10/8/1983 | See Source »

...previous experiences were all either one-to-one with a professor or just straight lecture. Here it's multiple interaction," he says, adding that "at first I was nervous about speaking up in class because everything got so quiet, but no if I have something to say I just raise my hand...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: The Odyssey of a B-School Student | 10/8/1983 | See Source »

...reflect on the fact that the phones are all but installed and speculate that it is rather pointless to complain. But, as far as we are concerned, these seems to be no reason that we, today's student, should have to endure the lack of phones, privacy, and quiet, in addition to Harvard's general ineptitude, with absolutely no compensation or consideration. Harvard's convenient monopoly (read: stranglehold) on student housing makes their thoughtlessness all the more criminal. Will this corporation ever develop a conscience? Will they ever need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crossed Wires | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

...remember Vietnam" Until recently the slogan was heard from protest groups with varying degrees of intensity on college campuses and by other marching in many American cities. Their voices have been quiet in recent weeks, distracted by tragic events taking place in other regions of the world America's involvement in EI Salvador and other Central American nations torn by strife and the political philosophies of East and West, set off alarms from coast to coast that the United States, under the Reagan Administration, was about to step into another bloody quagmire...

Author: By Peter Teeley, | Title: The Right of Protest | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

...Hemingway stories, has not yet come to finish Ernest Hemingway's. At 39, in life's prime, he has chosen to be in the midst of death. Madrid, whence last fortnight he cabled a first dispatch to the N. Y. Times, was what he described as quiet; but a shell hit the hotel where he was shaving one morning. Whether his remaining chapters are to reach a further climax, are to be torn off unfinished or peter out in a dull decline, time alone can tell. But no matter what is to happen to Hemingway, U. S. readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books 1937: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT by Ernest Hemingway | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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