Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While meeting attendees praised Dunn and Fineberg's candor, several questioned whether alumnae would rally around the new Institute...
What will tie the Institute together, Fineberg said, will be its commitment to research of the highest order, inviting scholars from around the world to apply to Radcliffe fellowships...
...wind was very shifty, coming in patches," Jessop said. "There was a lot of fouling and we had trouble around the corners...
Finally it is Bradley's turn to speak. Back in control, he relaxes; surrounded by supporters, relatives and old buddies, he tells a story about being alone. "I cannot tell you how many hours I spent in this space," he says, looking around the gym. "After one night when we lost, early the next morning I was back." He'd come by himself to work on his shooting. "The bleachers were still pulled out, there were popcorn boxes on the floor, and I felt I was home--in the place I spent more time than any other...
...four hours a day, with weights in his sneakers to improve his jumping. It led to an acclaim that as McPhee once said, made Bradley "a personality before becoming a person." Known as the best high school ballplayer in Missouri history, he had college recruiters and newspapermen coming around all the time, but his parents weren't content to have their child be a jock. The pressure was always on him to study harder, aim higher, make something more of himself. And Bradley was willing to stay up half the night after a big win--not partying but studying...