Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...train rolls across a bridge, a huge sign proclaims, "Trenton Makes, the World Takes." A sign on the railroad station advertises "A Little Night Music" at the Majestic Theater in New York. Outside Trenton, on a plot of farmland, a gaunt bird picks at some seeds among some neatly-plowed furrows...
...recent NCAA rule change allows an athlete to sign a professional contract in one sport and still maintain amateur standing in another. But, according to Kaufmann, "the Ivy League did not embrace the new rule" and Stoeckel was unanimously declared ineligible by the committee...
...there is the wind. Only the wind is comfortable at Soldiers Field. At least, it seems to be comfortable, since it is always there. For some institutions, this would be a sign to plant cedars along the fences, or at least to put up windscreens. But Harvard, perhaps hoping to economize or to test the fortitude of those stupid enough to try to play tennis, has forgone any kind of wind protection...
...unionize Harvard academics since the 1930s. Like the more militant Graduate Student and Teaching Fellows Union that followed it four years later, the Federation of Teaching Fellows was interested in traditional union issues--especially a pay raise to $160 a fifth. But the attempt to organize was a sign of the times, like the CIA's canceling its spring recruiting drive for fear of a demonstration. Or 71 Harvard students pledging publicly to refuse all military service while the United States fought in Vietnam...
...left the prison December 22, 1971," he says, "when I signed the commutation order that placed me on restriction until March 10, 1973, and I did not learn until the following day of the 1980 restriction. I refused to sign it. I don't think it's enforceable nor can they, 11 days later, issue something that wasn't part of what I signed...