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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of 50 students tries to climb over the large metal spiked fence surrounding Leverett Towers. My journalistic instincts tell me that their reproductive organs are in grave danger of injury. "If one of them slips," a bystander comments knowingly, "it would really hurt...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Dudes, Where Are the Parties? | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

...Three large, hairy and somewhat inebriated guys wearing "Harvard: The Northeastern of Cambridge" shirts ask me if they can "borrow" my identification. I give them my outdated Boston Public Library card and tell them that the secret code word is "Zeek...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Dudes, Where Are the Parties? | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

...library has more than 10 million volumes," I tell them. "And we are the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States of America...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Dudes, Where Are the Parties? | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

NONE of those revelations, of course, came out in her version. Instead, I am the ogre who made her do my laundry. The truth is that she volunteered. She offered to help after I threatened to tell our parents about her score...

Author: By Matthew Pinsker, | Title: The Pros and Cons of Harvard Siblings | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

Someone has to tell children that it's only a damn sport...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Little League Moments and Fears | 10/24/1989 | See Source »

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