Word: although
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contest was a defensive struggle played on a muddy field that limited the offenses of both teams. Harvard's veer offense, dependent on quick cuts by runners, was hurt by the field conditions. Quarterback Jim Stoeckel countered with his finest performance of the season, although many of his accurate throws were dropped by the Crimson receivers...
...ALBUM BEGINS with "Wake Up and Live"--pure reggae, although Marley adds more brass than usual. The lyrics are simple yet stirring...
...when the Federal Reserve drove up short-term interest rates, his firm had to absorb devastating losses on bonds that no one would buy. After three weeks of harried days on Wall Street and sleepless nights in his Riverside Drive apartment, Gorsetman closed his ofiice's front door. Although he is now looking for another job on Wall Street, he says bitterly, "The market stinks...
...Although he charted the symptoms of the Age of Anxiety, Auden never seemed to have more than a mild case. His loss of faith in the Anglicanism of his childhood, his later disillusionment with Communism, his conversion back to Christianity were accomplished with no public hand wringing and left no visible scars. His emigration to the U.S. in 1939 raised charges that he had cravenly abandoned England's sinking ship; he stoically endured the abuse...
...came from a family of decayed gentry whose life centered on a summer home in Newburyport, Mass. His father was a charming scapegrace, only occasionally employed. When Marquand entered Harvard in 1911, it was on a scholarship, although he was an indifferent scholar. He was a public high school boy, ignored by the "St. Grottlesex" preppies...