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Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What talk it seemed to be! Shaw, Ibsen, Nietzsche. Back and forth the conversation went, in the clever, fragmented sentences of quick repartee. Before dessert they had gone on to Katherine Mansfield, and then in a postprandial few minutes they dealt, to their satisfaction and mine, with Cabell and Menken...

Author: By Nathan M. Pusey, | Title: A Personal Testimonial | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

Police believe that the suspect hid in the library until after closing time on August 19, then went on the roof, climbed down the rope to a window and broke into the Widener Room where the Bible is kept. He then removed the Bible from the display case and was attempting to climb further down the rope to the ground outside when he fell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burglar Slips as He Tries to Remove Gutenberg Bible From Widener Library | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...elbow gliding along toward his test tube rack, but there was nothing he could do about it. He watched as the rack and eighteen test tubes of proteins went into the air and hit the floor. It had seemed so inevitable, even if only for an instant, that he wondered why the girl was all upset. She was almost hysterical...

Author: By Samuel Bonder, | Title: 'For Betty, With No Hard Feelings' | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

After everyone shut up and went back to work, Susan looked up from the floor where she was wiping up proteins and asked, "Martin... umh... what is my punishment...

Author: By Samuel Bonder, | Title: 'For Betty, With No Hard Feelings' | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

Well, Martin tried that until Christmas vacation and started to feel pretty well. He even went to his biology labs on Thursday (the Dean, bless him, had checked into Martin's case and had transferred him to the other section), and he began talking to people and doing other informal things. Then he had a wonderful Christmas vacation in Florida, playing golf and tennis and, believe it or not, with girls (but not Cliffies). Afterwards, Martin came back to Harvard and aced all his finals, salvaging an almost-Group III average ("You'll do fine next term," said the Dean...

Author: By Samuel Bonder, | Title: 'For Betty, With No Hard Feelings' | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

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