Word: sold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is some ground for believing that the event is dedicated primarily to working up an even larger thirst than is usual Down Under. Last week's turnout of 4,500-half of them children -downed 3,360 pint bottles of beer, most of it sold from a bar sited in the center of the otherwise dry river...
...building itself, decorated with Teddy Roosevelt's African game trophies (since sold to bargain-hunting undergraduates), oak paneling, and coat of arms, there was opportunity for a real Harvard club. Its basement held a large room with eighteen billiard tables where a member could obtain free instruction from "a well-known professional." A kitchen, a printing office, and some rooms of the CRIMSON completed this floor. Above in the hall now used as freshman dining rooms, was a living room. An athletes' training table occupied what is now the Union kitchen. Upstairs, a library of 25,000 volumes filled...
...begrudgingly but nevertheless. He may even learn to live with Eldridge Cleaver, though I'm hedging my bets. But he won't learn to live with anything or anybody that sticks an axe in his face-so why bother? In America, for the time being, revolutions are to be sold rather than made...
...There are always drugs, of course. As long as you're not a flagrant pusher. Harvard will keep you safe from the nares. (In fact, I'm sure many an administrator welcomed the advent of grass as one way to defuse revolutions.) Consequently, grass is plentiful, and cheap, mostly sold by Cliffies who don't need the money because their fathers live in Westchester and have all the money they need. But even drugs are becoming passe. They used to be the major social determinant of freshman year. There were those in the dorm who turned on and those...
...traditional 40% share of the shrinking world market for wheat. If so, the chief losers will be U.S. taxpayers because more farmers will elect to unload their crop at the domestic subsidized price and the Government will have to pay the cost of storage until the wheat can be sold. The problem is likely to prove persistent. U.S. farm experts figure that the world supply of wheat has grown so large that even a serious drought in one or two countries would not wipe out the global surplus...