Word: alma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which was then a graveyard of factories," he says. "I needed to understand why." After distinguishing himself as an economics student at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines in Paris, Allais worked for seven years in the French mine administration and in 1944 became a professor at his alma mater...
What do you call four Harvard grads trying to hustle the price of a movie by singing outside their alma mater...
Sudduth, a one-time Harvard star now a computer programmer at his alma mater, was timed in 19 minutes, 2.82 seconds on a winding, wind-whipped three-mile course on the Charles River...
...mother returned to the U.S. and remarried. (Sontag uses her stepfather's last name.) In time, the new family ended up living in Canoga Park, near Los Angeles, though it would be truer to say that Sontag lived in books. The most ardent reader at North Hollywood High School, alma mater of Alan Ladd and Farley Granger, she graduated at 15 and made for the University of Chicago. (She would later do graduate work at Harvard and Oxford.) At 17 she married sociologist Philip Rieff, then a 28-year-old instructor, just ten days after she met him. The marriage...
...other--Centenary College in Shreveport, La.--was known as the alma mater of Celtic star Robert Parish. Despite a 21-0 regular season mark, the Gentlemen never received mention in the national rankings...