Word: availed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Larry D. Benson, chairman of the English department, said recently that "We have expanded," but that until the department can hire more professors "we hope students will avail themselves of the opportunity" afforded them by those four limited-enrollment courses Needless to say, this sounds rather cheap to upperclassmen frantically looking for advisers with interest and ability in theory...
...Spain was sacrificed, as Carr writes, to no avail Both the USSR and the West were busy worrying about Hitler, and outside of the usual declamations neither helped the Spanish...
...seemed to lose sight of the puck. It landed in the Crimson zone, where Mark Henderson scored what later proved to be the decisive goal. Harvard Coach Bill Cleary protested vehemently that Henderson was standing in the zone before the puck fell, and was thus offside. All to no avail...
Creusot-Loire was created in 1970 by the merger of three steel and engineering groups. In 1980 Harvard-educated Didier Pineau-Valencienne took over as chairman and sought to streamline the company's operations. To no avail. In 1983 the group racked up record losses of $200 million...
...avail, at either end of the court. "I think we boxed out well and we didn't let them penetrate in the lane," an elated senior Co-Captain Joe Carrabino said later...