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Word: wrongs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wrong, because at the beginning of the year I talked to one of the Winthrop House tutors about applying to grad school, and was told that to get in I had to maintain a career score of .800 or above...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dear Mom | 10/29/1977 | See Source »

HARVARD at BROWN--You know what happened the last time I asked my mother for advice? Harvard 21, Brown 14, and if I'm wrong again this week, well, I didn't want to go to grad school anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dear Mom | 10/29/1977 | See Source »

Last week: Four right, one wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dear Mom | 10/29/1977 | See Source »

...true Michael Harrington's statement in opening his book The Other America: "To be sure, the other America is not impoverished in the same sense as those poor nations where millions cling to hunger as a defense against starvation. This country has escaped such extremes." But Harrington was wrong...

Author: By Matthew D. Slater, | Title: Protecting the Poor: The Fight for the Senate Nutrition Committee | 10/25/1977 | See Source »

...characters, who are all black, spend their lives reacting in one way or another to persistent discrimination. Macon Dead, a successful black slumlord, will always be warped, both because he must live with a name given his father by a drunken Union soldier who filled out the form wrong, and because he will not be any more accepted by the white banks than he will be by his black tenants. His wife, the doctor's daughter, will never be part of the city's black community because she alone is from the middle class; but she won't be part...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: The Fathers May Soar | 10/25/1977 | See Source »

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