Word: bottomly
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...game, but then found his groove and retired 11 Tigers in a row. He did not allow a run until the fifth inning, when Dan DeGeorge plated Adrian Turnham with a double to left-center. PRINCETON 6, HARVARD 4 The Crimson scored two unearned runs in the bottom of the seventh to send the first game into extra innings, but senior Jake Bruton gave back the two runs with a throwing error in the top of the eighth and took the hard-luck loss for Harvard.The home team got a bit of luck in the bottom half of the seventh...
...Harvard, “every tub is on its own bottom,” or so the old saying goes. This means that each faculty—or “tub”—is largely independent of the central administration, setting its own policies, granting its own degrees, and, most importantly, setting its own budget. The power of the purse is largely invested in one person and one person alone: the dean of the Faculty...
...used as housing for soldiers during the siege of Boston in 1775 and 1776 and subsequently used as dormitory, office, and administrative space. In the 1920s it was converted back to a dormitory, and in 1939, the Harvard president’s office moved from University Hall into the bottom floors of Mass. Hall. Parts of the top two floors of the building, however, are still used to house around 20 first-year college students. In a college constantly criticized for its high student-faculty ratio and lack of University attention to undergrads, housing 20 “lowly?...
...should I vote for you? -Brittany Cliff, Little Rock, Ark. Because I believe that America's greatness is not in its government but in ordinary people. I know what it is like to start at the bottom, and I am very mindful of how hard people have to work to make it. I have been an underdog in everything I have undertaken - not just politically, but throughout my entire life...
...over a decade, Japan has been experimenting with electromagnetic trains at a testing facility in Yamanashi prefecture, about 50 miles west of Tokyo. The repulsion created between magnets embedded in the U-shaped track and others embedded inside the cars causes the train to levitate 10 cm above the bottom of the track - "maglev" is short for magnetic levitation. The magnets also propel the train forward very, very quickly, in part because air creates less friction than rail. The Yamanashi test maglev set a world speed record for trains in 2003 at 361 mph, and it cruises...