Word: strata
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of dissatisfied final club members started the Signet in 1870, when some juniors became fed up with the traditional social strata on campus and decided to form a new organization with a membership based on "merit and character," according to a piece written by member Nathan C. Shiverick '52 on the Society's centennial. Now 116 years old, the Signet is located in yellow cottage at 46 Dunster Street, a building it bought from the AD Club...
Even if Linda Elizabeth never responds, she is indirectly responsible for a powerfully evocative volume that gives dimension to the questions haunting every child deprived of his genealogy. It is part confession, part portrait of Britain, with its intimidating social strata, its cloaked poverty and strained respectability. And it is incontrovertible proof that Dickens, the great middle-class fantasist, the maker of grotesques and waifs and seekers, was a teller of more enduring truths than even he suspected...
...this past winter, his popularity has assumed extraordinary proportions. His memoir, Iacocca, has stayed at the top of best-seller lists for almost five months, moving out of bookstores for a while at a rate of 15,000 copies a day. "The book's popularity reaches across all social strata, in all regions of the country," says Bernard Rath, president of the American Booksellers Association. Indeed, its publisher says that Iacocca has just become the best- selling nonfiction hardcover in history: more than 1.5 million copies are in print.* Hundreds of new devotees write to Iacocca each week, more than...
...easy work. The search for oil meant days of chasing rumors over dusty back roads in Texas and Oklahoma, and nights bent over maps studying geological strata. In his spare time, Pickens indulged his passion for Gusher, a board game in which players roll dice to look for oil. Says Amarillo Lawyer Wales Madden Jr., an old friend: "It was uncanny. He always won at that darn game...
...officers are educated in academics modeled on British institutions. In part it is caused by the military's heterogeneous nature; the armed forces perform the same role for India as they do for nations like Israel and the United States, providing a "melting pot" of different regions, religions, socioeconomic strata, even languages. No group or social class has been systematically excluded from military service in India. Such a cohesive, non-exclusive force in Indian society is not likely to engage in sectarian squabbles or to generate potential tyrants, and such has indeed been the case for India...