Word: archness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inscribed for her by the fates." The phrase "In the end" dooms the stanza to almost blase speech, which is almost bucked by the phrase "that they might," until the stanza ends with the prepositional pile-up "inscribed for her by the fates." Flat language and idioms mixed with arch language and emplotment are characteristic of Gluck's voice, which, like too many contemporary authors, is often pretentiously down-to-earth...
...fought to keep its record among the best in the Ivy League, failing to tame the Tigers 111-189, but keeping the Bulldogs on a tight leash 157-143 and demolishing the Quakers. Certainly, the team's bigger test of the two meets was against conference-leading Princeton and arch-rival Yale. HARVARD 111 PRINCETON 189 HARVARD 157 YALE...
With many close match-ups against Penn, its arch-rival for the past few years, Harvard has put Lehigh behind it, and is now looking ahead, ready for some retribution...
During her middle school days in Glover, Vt., she always loved traveling to arch-rival Barton's larger facility, a giant leap up from Glover's tiny gym, a converted town hall...
...course of five years workers excavated 3.7 million cu. yds. of rock and poured 4.4 million cu. yds. of concrete; the main arch of the dam towers 70 stories high. Steve was first in charge of transportation, engineering and administration. When his father died suddenly in 1933, he became chief executive of the whole project, which transformed the economy of much of the West, as well as transforming the company...