Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reserve a seat, interested individuals must call the Radcliffe Seminars office...
...when it did, it did so with the unsettling persistence of a maggot wriggling inside an apple. A week after my return, I was driving with my sister in the seat next to me. My mom was dozing in the back seat. It's an unspoken rule in our family that the driver gets to pick the radio station--it is only fair to get a privilege for a responsibility. We approached New York on 1-95, and I was scanning the FM band of the radio, stopping at 97.9 megahertz, A Latin station...
Many students are conveniently "undecided" about their concentrations when trying to weasel into this or that department's introductory course. Helen Vendler's core class may be so oversubscribed that each seat occupied by an auditor translates directly into a legitimate student forced to stand through lecture--but nobody checks credentials at the door, so why not soak up some literary culture...
Anthony Harvey, a security guard at Hynes, adjusts his red and black checkered jacket and collapses into a just-vacated seat...
Ravikumar was one of the lucky ones who found a seat inside the lecture hall. Space was at a premium, as dozens camped in the aisles and around the professor's podium. Lecture was delayed about 20 minutes as students were ushered out of the lecture hall to ease the crowding...