Word: borrowings
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...Evening is, to borrow an antique movie company slogan, "In The Tradition of Quality," which in olden times meant adaptations of high-toned popular fiction. No one ever got to say what was on their minds in those films, which often featured feverish and high-strung emoting by such live-wire nut jobs as Bette Davis or Joan Crawford who would haul a handgun out of her handbag and plug whoever was thwarting her hormonal needs. Here everyone suffers in hushed silence...
...Everyone would want to borrow the Harvard label; it’s a great brand,” Nye says...
...That leads to arrangements that are not always dependable. “We’ve had to depend on the good will of faculty from other departments to borrow professors,” says Divinity School Dean William A. Graham...
...matter what I had to do the next day for class, I made it to Senior Bar. If I had a test or a problem set, I went anyway. Part of the reason was because I knew that I would never have that chance again. To borrow a phrase that Jess R. Burkle ’06 coined in his Class Day speech last year, I can’t help but feel that, on June 7th, the sound of Bill Gates' voice will represent “the sound of the train of fun coming to a halt...
...recent week-long stay. Hours before the Flowers Bay talk, which had been canceled because the organizers could not find a proper venue, he found Mrs. Warner, a wizened elderly resident, who offered up her front lawn - a patch of windswept dirt - for the event. Fried managed to borrow several plastic chairs from the Sea Breeze Bar across the street. A single lightbulb hooked onto a long electrical cord and suspended from an old wooden ladder was rigged up as a spotlight as Fried addressed a small group of local residents...