Word: stampedes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In a sense, the two struggles are not separate at all. The city's cynicism, its vast impersonality, its conflicting, multiracial prejudices, its respect for luck and ruthlessness are inevitably stamped on the minds of its children, and invade the classroom with them. Nowhere are the problems of mass...
A police lieutenant stamped inside each bus. "Wipe that smile off your face," he barked. "You guys are in real trouble. What are you laughing for? Just because you guys go to Harvard and have a lot of money is no reason for you to take advantage of us. I...
Impartially stamped on cocktail glasses and diplomas, Veritas is the familiar emblem of Harvard College. But acceptance of this Latin noun came only after a haphazard beginning and two centuries of neglect and controversy.
Reconstructing the card trick was simple. The five women had come in early in the evening, bought cards for the big $1,000 game, and appropriated the corner table. Some time during the evening, the woman with the "winning" card substituted a matching orange card with unnumbered squares from a...
A Recipe. From the start of the cold war, censorship was always ironhanded, often mysterious. In 1947, when Gilmore filed a light feature story on how Russian housewives cook shashlik and beef Stroganoff, the censor deleted everything in the story except the recipe, apparently because he thought the discussion of...