Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first-year survey courses, we went to Harvard classes with Harvard men in Harvard buildings. The presence of women in Harvard classes was so new that professors and section men didn't know quite what to do with us. They never took our attendance, they never assigned us seats. We therefore sat wherever there was an empty seat, often in the back of the classroom, sometimes, on the floor...
...Vienna. Our backgrounds are as diverse as our interests. We have taken classes in Acadian, Afro-American art history, archaeology and astrophysics. Some of us are on the fast track to success, others on the low road to glory. A few of us aren't in the driver's seat at all, but even we will get there somehow...
...course. Farwell Smith '48-'49 took a strange trombone, most of it missing, to the football games. He'd go for one or two notes, and then a part of the trombone would fall out. One freezing afternoon, when the team was losing to Dartmouth, Farwell left his seat, leaving me his trombone, and ran across to the Dartmouth side. Back then the Dartmouth cheerleaders were Indians, their badges painted red, and they wore breached-clouts. To keep out of the cold they spent most of the afternoon huddled in their teepee set up on the sidelines. I think...
...shoot-from-the-hip candidacy had given the GOP new energy and a new self-image -- a party of Marlboro Men, of rugged individualists, of small government and wide freedoms. A party of true Conservatives. And after four years of licking his wounds, the Senator from Arizona regained his seat and became its elder statesman...
...estimated average room rate at an international four- or five-star hotel in February dropped to $108 a night, down from $147 the previous year, while in Seoul the price cutting was even more dramatic: to $70 from $143, according to analysts at PKF Consulting. And although business-class seat prices are holding steady, economy fares are 20% lower than last year's, says Jacko C.F. Yeung, a Hong Kong travel agent. A standard flight from Hong Kong to Singapore costs about $300; last year it was $550. "The trend I see is that more business people are traveling economy...