"Sandwich Seminar" (1975)

[Wilson Gray]

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> SANDWICH SEMINAR--1,510 Google hits
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> "Sandwich seminar" is not in OED. Anything in the proposed revision? I was
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> I'm sending this one to the "Sandwich Lady."
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> April/May 1975, Illegitimate Sun (parody of the Cornell Daily Sun), pg. 5,
> col. 1:
> _Women's Studies Sandwich Seminar: "Why Men Are So Nasty and How Us Women
> Have to Stick Together"_--special guest speaker, Bernia Yorbrazeer,
> Vice-President, New York City Chapter of FLOG (Feminist Liberation
> Organizing  Group),
> Room 300, Noyes, 12:15 p.m.
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Reminds me of the "brown-bag lunch," a seminar held during the lunch hour.
Those who choose to attend are expected to brown-bag their lunch.
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-Wilson Gray