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Word: shower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only one who makes money off the event. Every year a few hundred students hang around for a week after school closes to assist Buildings and Grounds in erasing any traces of a year at Harvard that could upset an alumni wife (like scum in the shower stalls and marijuana seeds in the bureau drawers), and a few dozen of the best of these are chosen to stay on to work the handful of lucrative details that oil the relentless flow of events that comprises the Reunion. The "best" are, of course, chosen by the crew captains who supervise...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Reunions Past I was a Lackey for Harvard '44 | 6/14/1971 | See Source »

When the would-be smugglers emerged from the train, a customs officer raised his hand to halt the procession. One of the women cried, "Loose your contraceptives!" and a shower of condoms, pills, diaphragms, foams, intrauterine loops and spermicidal jellies fell at his feet. Some women tossed the contraceptives over customs officials' heads to friends. Others produced the pill, swallowed it, then challenged customs men: "Now confiscate that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: The Contraceptive Corps | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

...entire race was rowed in a rain shower that subsided only as the crews hit the finish line. Harvard, rowing in a tailwind, reached the 1000 meter mark in three minutes, but the wind changed to a headwind and the Crimson boat finished the course...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Heavies Smash Princeton In Prelude to Penn Race | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

...over left field yesterday as Harvard's leading hitter, Dan DeMichele, strolled next to the Stadium on his way to a hot Dillon shower. It was only the top of the eighth, but his teammates were gliding to a 9-1 win over M.I.T. and he was hungry...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Batmen Club M.I.T. for 13th Win | 4/22/1971 | See Source »

...Yale coach Ken MacKenzie. Sitting on a comfortable 4-1 lead, he watched Corcoran load the bases on a single and two walks. In came fastball relief pitcher Finney. What Finney had in speed he lacked in control. Fourteen pitches, no strikes, and four runs later, Finney took a shower...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Harvard Baseball Sweeps Doubleheader With Yale | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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