Word: reade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tree planting ceremony, one of Vanderpool's long-time friends read from a speech Vanderpool had delivered ata tree-planting ceremony for a high school friendof his who had died...
Jane lived at home in Chicago and spent her summer evaluating math textbooks used in high schools. "I was in charge of analyzing data collected from 1000 ninth and tenth graders on their opinions of math books," she says. It's not even exciting to read about, let alone live...
...promoted to sharpening pencils--3500 Number Twos, to be exact. (Did you ever wonder who sharpened all those pencils for your standardized tests? Now you know.) Jane says the pencils were the most boring part of the summer, at least until she realized "you can sharpen pencils and read Lady Chatterley's Lover at the same time...After that I listened to the Grateful Dead because my boss went on vacation...
Instead, she spent her days at a desk waiting for the phone calls that rarely came and reading anything she could get her hands on. "I just sat there and read. It wasn't that bad. It was just boring," she says. But after several weeks of life in the rat race, Debbie quit to become a beach...
...class even sounds interesting, introducing students to important European texts they otherwise may never read. Equally important, the class will require a good number of tenured historians to lecture undergraduates in a context which could prove stimulating to both...