Word: attested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cats and the hoopla still surrounding Eliot attest to the poet's surprising vitality. By many standards he should have been old news by now. He professed conservatism, elitism and sectarian Christianity at a time when the fashionable tides were running against all three. As a shy, uncertain young man, he was torn between the dictates of his proper upbringing and the tug of his emotions. He looked inward and saw himself coming apart; he looked outward and saw Western civilization dissolving into chaos. He tried to heal these rifts with words: "I have measured out my life with coffee...
...Yuan, though she is open about the problems she faces, is reluctant to emphasize her hardships; like many of the people I met in China, she is absorbed in attaining the badges of economic success which attest to China's rising standard of living...
...will of the Senate. When you look at the record, it's not so." Then that glint flashes again, and he admits, "The reputation is quite valuable, because it has a certain amount of effect. They know I'm capable of it." That they do. Senate colleagues will attest that Helms has SPECIAL HANDLING stamped all over him, and some grumble that he has poured sand into the Senate's engine all too often...
THESE criticisms are not meant to imply that the survey is worthless--statistics are a valuable, if unreliable, measure of student opinion. But as any undergraduate can attest, students and their lives are not reducible to numbers or measurement. A survey on the quality of College life can only begin to assess the qualitative problems they face...
...Lawrence knows how to score, as its 124 league goals attest. The defense, however, has played more like the Los Angeles Clippers, the NBA's stand-and-stare defensive giant...