Word: attestations
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...have some fun. As any of your taken friends can attest, the act of finding and trapping a new love is the best part of a relationship. After the honeymoon week, you’ll be bored (so count your blessings now). The fun comes with getting out there and meeting different types of people in different settings...
...boost to some of 17 other schools whose American Indian nicknames the NCAA has barred from play-off games. Central Michigan University (the Chippewas) and the University of Utah (the Utes) are also appealing the ban and, as Florida State did so successfully, are lining up local tribes to attest to their "long-standing relationships...
...good time for Blair to do so. Krishan Sapra Crawley, England Good from the Games Re "Why Back The Bid?" on why cities should think twice before wanting to play host to the Olympics [July 4-11]: I returned to Athens after nearly two decades abroad, and I can attest to the great improvements that the Games brought to life in this city, which was the site of the 2004 Summer Games. Hard economic figures cannot account for the can-do sense of achievement that all Greeks felt for a job that all who attended the Games agreed was extremely...
...nature, unabashedly blunt. As my roommates (or better yet, certain of their more unfortunate past male acquaintances) will attest, I have a difficult time hiding my disdain for people I don’t like or respect. In my personal life, I’ve gotten away with shunning unpalatable people. Among my roommates, it’s become a joke that’s recounted in the long nights before tests or after boy-jerks...
While seventeenth-century records attest to Iacoomes’ academic prowess—he impressed then-Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony John Winthrop in a 1663 Latin oral examination—he was shipwrecked off the coast of Nantucket as he returned to Cambridge from Martha’s Vineyard. He died sometime in the summer of 1665—before Commencement, which in the seventeenth century took place at the end of the summer...