Word: unreadably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doors of people's residences (like the Cambridge Tab) if they are to be read at all. Busy Harvard students--like most people--rarely spend the effort to pick up and take to their rooms publications that were lumped in a grubby pile, as bundles and bundles of unread Campus Calendars and Boston After Darks attest. All the major free publications on campus, including The Independent, the Perspective, the Salient, the Advocate and the Lampoon, know that door-to-door delivery is required or there is no point in publishing. Believe me, door-to-door delivery is a substantial amount...
...about Islam, but about migration, metamorphosis, divided selves, love, death, London and Bombay." The sad irony, he said, is "that after working for five years to give voice and fictional flesh to the immigrant culture of which I am myself a member, I should see my book burned, largely unread, by the people it's about -- people who might find some pleasure and much recognition in its pages...
...fact that there is a trash problem beleaguering the Yard, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, comes as news to us. And if there is a mess, are the student publications at fault? Although most hallways are adorned every Thursday and Friday with unread and unwished-for Independents, it is hard to believe that newspapers and periodicals are truly responsible...
...around you, students are cracking open their unread books, discussing their academic and career-oriented plans with their parents and catching up on all their unread issues of Time and Newsweek. Those undergraduates who went home are walking up at 8 a.m. every morning to complete their family chores and getting together with old friends to have milk and cookies and discuss international relations...
Charlesworth's enthusiastic reaction is understandable, for the text he was examining was not just any scrap of parchment. It was the legendary Genesis Apocryphon, one of the original seven rolls of inscribed sheepskin known as the Dead Sea Scrolls -- and the only one whose contents are still largely unread. Unearthed in 1947 by Bedouin shepherds from rocky caves only 15 miles from Jerusalem, the Dead Sea Scrolls are considered by biblical archaeologists to be the greatest manuscript discovery ever made. Their texts, set down in Hebrew and Aramaic some 2,000 years ago, include long-lost originals of dozens...