Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While my friend was in the archives she wrote me that she came across a bit of a problem with documents and the archivist: "Pretty soon the man comes tottering back wiping cobwebs off a sort of cardboard box with hinges. Inside are piles of documents from the 1400s coated with dust and encased in rubber bands, bits of strings, etc. As you look through them the edges fall off--the archivist says 'eh beh' (so?) and shrugs. I couldn't get them all back in the cardboard box so he came and helped, that is, he jammed them...
...live Erasmo Ortega, 52, and his wife Eloina, 45, and seven of their eight children (a married daughter lives upstairs). Also a three-year-old orphaned nephew whom they are raising. Also about eight other children (it is hard to keep count) who don't quite live there but sort of romp around and squeal. Also a neighborhood cat. "I'm the only woman in the neighborhood who doesn't work full time, so I take care of everybody's children," says Do?a Eloina. "People around here, they call this place the casa de locos, but they...
...Sort of Scapegoat. Donnelly and her companion were discovered in bed by her roommate and a male cadet, who explained later that they were looking for some aspirin. The male cadet, known on campus as "Turkey," tipped academy officials, who pressured Donnelly to resign but did not discipline her bunkmate. According to the academy's account, he had burrowed deep under the covers and could not be identified. Said a spokesman: "We knew only that he had blond hair. When we called in her boy friend, who has blond hair, he denied the incident." But Donnelly insists that everyone...
After Lewis safely got his diploma last week, Donnelly voiced her bitterness: "They treated us differently. Either they should have dismissed both of us or let us both stay. I'm sort of the scapegoat...
...monitor engine temperatures and in refineries and sewage-treatment plants to control the decomposition of waste and the levels of bacteria. Some engineers are also working on the development of home computer terminals that could give individuals access to whole libraries of information, as well as start a sort of "electronic democracy" in which public opinion on any issue could be sampled almost instantly...