Word: brief
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...years, engineering was a stepchild, shifted around the University and separate from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). In fact, it may be the only field of study at Harvard in which the dean owns a sheet detailing its many identity changes. The brief, found in the office of Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin, is called "Reincarnations...
...Carnesale] said... he was happy Neil could be there so everyone could see for themselves how well Neil was doing," Rowe said. "He conduded by saying that he shared everyone's hope that his acting career would be a brief one."CrimsonJoshue J. SchankerEarly to Rise A record number of early applications were submitted to Harvard this year. Comparison with last year: Early Applicants for Class of 1998 Early Applicants for Class of 1999 Sources: Harvard Admissions Office...
...Beavis and Butthead and, perhaps even more tragically, that we have absolutely no desire to do so, or the fact that we are now incapable of pulling consecutive all-nighters) exposure to important, politicized work like Wolf's makes it easier to accept the fact that resurrections are both brief and fleeting...
Gordimer says the only opinion of her writing that has ever really mattered is her own. She says she never considered any career other than writing, except a brief flirtation with ballet dancing at the age of four...
...chance encounter with Giambattista Marino, the floridly precious Neapolitan poet who had taken political asylum at the Paris court of Marie de Medicis, led to introductions in Rome, and he went there in 1624. From then until his death in 1665, Poussin returned to France only once, for a brief two years (1640-42), during which Louis XIII tried to persuade France's top cultural expatriate to stay home. His blandishments failed. Poussin was quite content to accept commissions from royal courtiers -- notably from the Sieur deChantelou, a close and admiring friend to whom most of his surviving letters were...