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Word: transport (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owned by Phillips Brooks House and driven by Christopher Finn '80, who is helping ease the serious shortage of volunteers willing to transport kids to Walpole for the program. The kids hop out in the prison parking lot and run into the anteroom where other youths--both black and white--stand peering into the glass windows of the prison's central command, waiting for the uncooperative guards to find the list that will let them in tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reaching Out From Walpole | 11/9/1977 | See Source »

Herr arrived in Viet Nam on a vague assignment from Esquire in the latter part of 1967. His working conditions were ideal-no real deadlines, the freedom to travel wherever military transport would take him-and his timing was fortuitous. His year in the country coincided with some of the war's fiercest struggles-Tet and the battle for Hue, the siege at Khe Sanh and the Viet Cong's May 1968 Saigon offensive. Although he regularly cursed his own bravado, Herr made a point of being wherever the action was hottest, convinced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Secret History | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...freed himself from a pair of "pick-proof" darbies, the handcuffs used by Scotland Yard. And then, during a European tour, he freed himself from the thumbscrews, elbow irons and chains of the Kaiser's Polizei, and escaped from one of the "carrettes" the Russian Tsar used to transport his prisoners to Siberia. Such feats were always met by the surprise, and frequent embarrassment, of the authorities...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Fit to be Tied | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...addition, policies must be shaped that will assist the urban poor to increase their work productivity. In practice, this means a comprehensive program designed to increase earning opportunities in both the traditional and the modern sectors; provide equitable access to public utilities, transport, education and health services; and establish realistic housing policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: How to Defuse the Population Bomb | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

Lithium treatment, Tosteson says, is most often used to aid manic depressives. He says that in many manic depressives the red cell membrane has no system for regulating the transport of lithium. Tosteson hopes to examine the chromosomes of manic depressive individuals to see if there is a correlation between the presence of genes for the mental disorder and the presence of genes for the red cell membrane disorder...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Taking the Med School's Pulse | 10/21/1977 | See Source »

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