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Word: thought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...written a history of the Supreme Court. He himself was a lawyer. He was particularly well fitted to be long, verbose, tiresome and pompous. When we told him as the new chairman of our committee, that we wanted a rare books library, he became indignant and said he thought it was a very poor use of money. In fact, he thought that rare books were utterly useless, and as far as he was concerned, he would give us no assistance and would do everything he could to restrain us from acquiring such a building...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Old Books in and Under the Yard | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...June of that year, I met Arthur with my bags packed and my Buick roadster, a car of those days, all ready to go. It was a hot day. Arthur looked at the car-it wasn't a Rolls Royce-and he looked at me and he thought of the long trip. He also had his bags with him. rather large for a Buick Roadster and he said. "Oh God, how are we going to make...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Old Books in and Under the Yard | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C-, (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C-a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask really, is that you keep me awake. Talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or, Get Facts, 'Any Facts' | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

Once all this is done, limeness is just beginning. The distinctive feature of this flavor is Style, Girls who adopt it are sometimes thought of as the Radcliffe stereotype, and probably give wholesome Harvard freshmen from Iowa their first proof that the East is indeed strange looking. Greek shoulderbags are extremely popular, as are ski jackets, black tights. pierced ears, half high heels, scarves around their neck, long unpolished fingernails, rain ponchos, jewelry, and long hair. The most well-dressed of them imitate a European sort of gray-beige expensive simplicity: the sloppy ones wear skipolo shirts and dungarees...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Peach, Chocolate, and Lime The Three Famous Flavors of Radcliffe | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...former Winthrop House senior tutor, said, "If a student's doing poorly. I want to find what's wrong, and PRL is meaningless for that." Grinning, he added, "But I do look at it now and then just to see if a student is above or below what they thought...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: PRL: It Is a Secret Number That Predicts Just How Well You Are Supposed to Do Here | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

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