Word: availing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tutorial for credit and course reduction offer gradeless, relatively independent study for some students. The line between between them is vague, and it is difficult to assess the extent to which tutorial for credit suceeds when it is anything besides a thesis course. Not too many students avail themselves of this privilege, and it is not vigorously pushed by many departments...
...avail. It's almost as if the University were making a last ditch stand against The Machine knowing all the time that history is on the side of the 47 keys. In any case, you can count on another thought from us sometime around the end of April. Spring should be well under way by then...
...lavished its most expensive talents on Ernani. It got Spanish-born Artist Esteban Frances to design sets and costumes, surrounded Diva Milanov with Tenor Mario Del Monaco, Baritone Leonard Warren and Basso Cesare Siepi. To little avail. Of the four stars, nobody sang well in Act I, and Milanov appeared to be suffering from dizziness, staggering and finally getting herself planted before starting to sing. Vocally, she was plagued by an excruciatingly bad sense of pitch, although she had sung her role commendably in the dress rehearsal. Her loyal supporters wore lapel buttons reading "Viva Zinka...
...civilian needs for a year. "It is only now," said Premier Ben-Gurion somewhat nervously, "that we have fully realized how great in quantity, how modern and excellent in quality were the Egyptian arms and equipment." Then, more confidently, he added: "But all this was of no avail because there was no spirit in them...
...Speke, England, after complaining to no avail that a faulty switch in his neighbor's house was interfering with his TV set, Jack Pugh, 50, walked next door, spotted Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Morrison, watching their own TV, fired four bullets through the window, wounding them both and smashing their TV set, explained later to cops: "I acted under great provocation...