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Word: wide (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother, who had traveled from New York to act in an American Repertory Theatre production. The pair were descending a staircase leading from the main lobby to the basement of the 25 year-old Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. The toddler ducked between a nearly three-foot-wide gap in the stair railing and fell one story to the concrete floor...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: A Child's Fall Prompts City Safety Reviews | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...committee of Parsons, Carpenter officials, professors, and architects met this month to design a permanent solution for the wide Carpenter railings, Parsons said. The committee commissioned Boston architectural firm Wallace Floyd Associates to design changes, which may include scrapping the current railings and constructing safer ones, or adding permanent covers to the existing railings...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: A Child's Fall Prompts City Safety Reviews | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...debate over the council's proper role is by no means a new one. When the council was created in 1982, the founders believed the body should consider a wide range of issues and should not resist issues which might be considered political, said former Council Chairman Brian R. Melendez '86, an original member of the council...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: A Government Dabbling in Politics | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

After more than 60 percent of Harvard students urged the council to advocate divestment in a campus-wide referendum in January 1986, 18 council members--including Melendez--said the referendum was a vote of no-confidence in Offutt's allegedly apolitical stance...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: A Government Dabbling in Politics | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Under the Rhodes and Marshall procedures, students apply first to their house fellowship committee and then to a College-wide committee. If the all-Harvard committee approves a student's application, he or she receives a letter of endorsement signed by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57. While students may try for the Rhodes--but not the Marshall--without Harvard's sanction, an endorsement letter strengthens their application...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Marshalling Harvard's Resources | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

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