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Word: thingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less easy to define and analyze than such overt breaking news as the shooting down of a U.S. plane or a student uprising at Cornell." His association with TIME, he feels, "merges the best practices of journalism with the new field of polling. It's the most exciting thing I could be involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: may 2, 1969 | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...there's more. Sunday afternoon a jazz groups will play Dixieland stuff. One awed student, Tommy Harris '70, said yesterday, "Kirby's the best thing to hit Quincy House since the fire four years...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: On Spring Weekends and Beer | 5/1/1969 | See Source »

With a somewhat disturbing energy and bounce, Calkins has spoken in House dining halls and appeared with SDS members on panel discussions. A few other Corporation members have tried the same thing on a smaller scale. But now, at the beginning of May, there are probably no more than five or six undergraduates who could give an accurate description of what any of the other Fellows looks like...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Who Is This Man Hugh Calkins? | 5/1/1969 | See Source »

...very name of Jubilee Weekend was revolting. In the middle of March, people started calling each other Jubilarians and ringing up their girls back home. Disgusting. There can't be such a thing as a Jubilarian, people wouldn't really use that word at Harvard, would they? You used to walk into the Freshman Union and pick up a pamphlet entitled "Fellow Jubilarian--" and everyone would snicker; but they used it, yessir, people walked around that weekend going where the Jubilarians went, doing what good Jubilarians were supposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When Jubilee Almost Died; Or, How Four Conspirators Tried to Make You Richer | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

...ticket sales is to make it obvious to all freshmen that this is probably the biggest event in the history of Harvard--of course not as big as the bust, but still you can't sell tickets for something like that. Not only is Jubilee in itself the biggest thing, but this very Jubilee is even better than all the others, so you should buy your tickets before they are all sold out. A subtle point often connected with this theory is that because this is the best Jubilee, it is naturally also the most expensive ($19 last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When Jubilee Almost Died; Or, How Four Conspirators Tried to Make You Richer | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

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