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...subway turnstiles opened when you slid a token into a very narrow slot on top. Tens of thousands of dirty New York hands pushed them in all day. You could, apparently, put your lips over that slot and, with a hard inhalation, suck a token back up out of the machine. Then you could ride the subway for free, or sell it to someone for something less than a dollar. This was, of course, illegal. My patient had been spotted doing it. He had run, the cops had chased, and he had crossed the track just in front...
...volunteered to act as an observer on the U.S. Army's first motorized transcontinental convoy. But the 62-day Washington-to-San Francisco trek left him appalled. On the often unpaved, poorly maintained roads that comprised their route, trucks became stuck in mud, disappeared into clouds of dust, and slid on ice; on occasion, they even crashed through the beds of creaky wooden bridges...
...other novels for her book “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” a media blitz erupted. But when a number of students were caught cheating on midterms and homework assignments at the College 25 years ago, the issue quickly slid under the radar.Although these incidents have long faded from memory, in November of 1980, two professors reported instances of cheating during fall semester midterms.William H. Bossert ’59, then-McKay professor of applied mathematics, investigated allegations that several students had cheated on weekly homework assignments, The Crimson reported...
Iraqi-Canadian photographer Farah Nosh documented the life of her extended family in Baghdad during a particularly turbulent stretch. In February and March, as the country slid toward civil war, most of the family remained indoors, imprisoned by fear. Nosh's photographs document the daily struggle to block out the violence. Sometimes the carnage seemed a world away; at other times it was all too close. After a roadside bomb went off near the house, family members got a ringside view of smoke and pandemonium from their window...
...were playing deep in the outfield, and we were hitting it right at them.”Harvard almost scored in the sixth inning when Vertovez was called out at the plate on a throw from right field after a hit by junior Lauren Brown. Vertovez appeared to have slid underneath the tag at home, but the umpire disagreed.The Crimson mustered five hits, including doubles by sophmomore Danielle Kerper and junior Julia Kidder.HARVARD 7, PENN 6The Crimson scored early and often, then held on against a furious Quaker rally in the seventh to take the opener. Harvard scored four runs...