Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then, in 1912, a retired shoe manufacturer named Gordon McKay gave $5 million to the then-Graduate School of Applied Science, Martin says. McKay guaranteed the future of engineering at Harvard...
Howard promised that the CDC investigator will provide Harvard with aggressive "shoe leather epidemiology...
...wish it would snow," said Tarek Hassan, manager of The Tannery shoe and clothing store on Brattle Street. "When people see snow, they think, 'Gotta go shopping...
BASKETBALL IS CALLED THE CITY game, but that's not quite right. The really slick city game is played by college and high school coaches, sports agents, shoe manufacturers, sportswriters and TV producers. It involves conning kids -- mostly poor black kids -- into believing that they can grow up to play professional basketball. The fine documentary film Hoop Dreams shows how the game is played with high school basketballers in Chicago, and now Darcy Frey's thoughtful, sharply observed book, The Last Shot (Houghton Mifflin; 230 pages; $19.95), spells out its consequences for students at Abraham Lincoln High School...
...says he spent a year living in a stairwell near the Scientology center on Hollywood Boulevard after his parents kicked him out of the house: another story of drugs and alcohol and late-night fights. On a good day, Billy earns $10 panhandling; he stuffs the money in his shoe. That is where he also hides a stolen, neatly folded birth certificate from Texas that he says a friend gave him, along with a Social Security card. "I want to use these to get some credit and a driver's license, but I'm worried the guy may be dead...