Word: belle
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...chance to broaden his education came in 1940, when he won a scholarship to Wheaton College in Illinois, then as now the leading undergraduate institution of Evangelicalism. There he met Ruth Bell, the daughter of missionaries to China who herself wanted to go and evangelize in Tibet. Graham talked her out of it, arguing that she knew God wanted them to marry, so "I'll lead and you do the following...
Some professors determine their grades by using the a bell-curve distribution. Professors of the Practice of Geology John A. Wood said he bases his grades on numbers, "and then I place those into...equally spaced distribution bins...
Danny Elfman is as much in his element here as Burton. A frequent Burton contributor, his soundtracks have finally found the most ideal visuals possible. Blending the hurdy-gurdy eeriness of Halloween with the jingle-bell enthusiasm of Christmas songs yields a varied collection of hysterical musical numbers. They range from festive yuletide riffs to a Cab Calloway parody sung by the aptly named Oogie Boogie...
...both Bell Professor of Economics Jeffrey G. Williamson and Goldin, Harvard's leading economic historians, defended his scholarship as objective...
...wrong--I think we're one of the closest bunch of roommates at Harvard. It might be better, then, to think of our arguments as dialogues. Or even better, dialogues of friendship. (Does that somehow ring a bell?) To give you an idea of what I mean, here's an excerpt from our most recent spate of angry, but friendly words...