Word: periods
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...gathered my things to leave Walsh’s office, I mentioned that I was reading a book for my thesis on the turbulent, racially-charged period of school desegregation in Boston during the 1970s. I asked Walsh, who grew up in Dorchester and long ago determined the letter “R” to be an unnecessary impediment to good conversation, about his experiences living in the city during that time...
...found each through Facebook,” Chicuén said, referring to the social networking website that began in a Harvard dorm room. “All of the sudden we started chatting. It was finals period here, but during the summer, we started writing to each other, and the writing got to the level of five to six pages...
...former chairman of industrial giant Corning Incorporated, Houghton presiding over the Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—during a period of expansion and turbulence, a time when the endowment grew and crashed and a president rose and fell...
Houghton, an elegant industrial magnate in a bold pinstripe suit, says it’s now time “to pass the baton,” and he does so in a period of flux...
...wonder if, with time, I will forget—my preferred seat in the library, where my favorite section of books is, how it feels to be a student studying through the bitter cold reading period, or working hour upon hour on my senior thesis between runs to J.P. Licks for a free sample of ice cream and a large Earl Grey tea. Already the ghosts of faded experience fill Widener’s halls and surroundings, swirled about in my memory with a thousand other impressions...