Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHILE YOU WERE away this summer, Harvard libraries quietly raised their photocopying price from a nickel to a dime. Five cents, they claim, simply was not enough to compensate for the wear and tear that xeroxing causes the University's collection. And since prices haven't been raised since the '60s, it was time for a change...
...unfortunate that the point was not raised earlier this summer, before the United States enraged its allies, particularly Australia, through a surprising wheat deal with the Soviets, in which billions of dollars worth of American grain were dumped on the Soviet market below cost...
...summer of uncertainty for the Harvard football team, the starting quarterback slot was prehaps the most uncertain...
...seen McMillan's fossil forest, and on a flight to Axel Heiberg in July 1985, Tudge recalls, "I saw the same sort of stumps, but many, many of them." He later returned to the site, landed nearby, collected samples and brought them to Basinger, who immediately began planning this summer's expedition. Aided by a grant from the Geological Survey and accompanied by another fossil-forest specialist, Jane Francis, from Australia's University of Adelaide, he spent two weeks in July investigating the ancient forest...
During that period, the Arctic climate resembled that of Northern California today, with one exception: that far north, the sun never sets in summer and never rises in winter. "How did the trees grow so lushly in five months a year of blackness, without photosynthesis?" McMillan wonders. Francis, now back in Australia with samples of wood, leaves and soil from the island, suggests one possibility: "It may be that they shed their leaves and just stood dormant until it became light again, and then grew like...