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Word: whiles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beginning a few weeks ago, as I walked to classes every morning I'd see myriads of silver flashes on the water. For some reason all the minnows liked to jump out of the water in the early morning, their scales catching the sun as they broke the surface. There...

Author: By Larry Grisham, | Title: Administrators vs. Trees at the University of Texas | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

The cops mounted ladders, climbed up on the fire truck, and rode up in the scoop of the bulldozer to get the tree people. So nobody could complain about particular cops, they all removed their badges and any other source of identification. The most amazing part of the morning was...

Author: By Larry Grisham, | Title: Administrators vs. Trees at the University of Texas | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

Instead of suburb in cooperation coercion might be the eventual answer. While allowing the suburbs their symbolic independence, the county governments could initiate a metropolitan-wide tax base for "public goods" which benefit the whole area. Such public goods include transportation, police protection, and air pollution. The exception to these...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: The City Moynihanism | 12/2/1969 | See Source »

The woman in the visitors' center was eager. She asked us to sign the guest book ("one of you is enough-or the group name") and spread a pamphlet's map out in front of the signer. We all watched while she whipped her pencil past three important houses ("They...

Author: By Carole J. Uhlaner, | Title: Thanksgiving Lexington and Concord | 12/1/1969 | See Source »

The ground floor dining area was beginning to fill with lunching businessmen as Mr. Stack guided me to Harvard Hall, the main lounge. The decor was more "Harvard" than Harvard, and the men were a part of it. Dignity. Civility. White-haired men in baggy suits sat under framed images...

Author: By Julie E. Green, | Title: The Harvard Club Of New York City | 12/1/1969 | See Source »

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