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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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James Hays, professor of geology, will discuss comparative planetology; this may be rocky going, but it's solid stuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notes From the Underground... | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...banana boy, wop, grease ball, pizzabrain, vegetable-peddler;" he was pulling all the plugs on a last ditch performance to maintain grace. And I was unable to respond, my own vicious and maligned thoughts were tripping over each other, filling my mouth with cotton candy, my head with the stuff of insanity...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...back in my room--my own room and vehicle of existence--the boxes full of ME lay waiting to be unpacked. Stereo first, all the other stuff later. Posters and signs to tell everybody who passed the door of Daniels...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...wolf was still scrounging around the square with his friends looking for some raw meat, though, and his trustful scent brought him to the frenetic source of his curiosity. PCP was the freshman craze in certain Harvard Yard circles, and lots of it was being eaten. This was the stuff that high school health classes warn you about nowadays, but only three years ago it was an unknown frontier. Animal tranquilizer. The stuff they feed to sick and maimed horses before they are put out of their misery...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...make matters worse, The Harvard Mystique is largely derivative. Lopez lifts stuff from every popular magazine he can lay his hands on. From Esquire, he steals whole descriptive passages about the atmosphere of the Harvard Business School. From the Crimson he steals sensational stuff that no respectable author would steal. Lopez rehashes recent controversies that have plagued Harvard in recent years--the fight over genetic determination and I.Q., the University's connection with the Central Intelligence Agency, the fight over the relocation of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. It's all been said before--and much better...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Harvard Mistake | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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