Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expert in astronomical phenomena. I'm a history concentrator. So I tend to look at the Harvard experience from a historical perspective. While I was here, I made the closest friends I will likely ever heave. Generations of Harvard students have graduated with similarly close friendships, and it's not an accident...
Despite allowing five second-quarter goals,Harvard junior goalie Keith Cynar did his part tokeep the game close, recording 16 first-halfsaves--many of which were against point-blankshots...
...were pretty close with Cornell for the first 500 meters before we pulled away," junior coxswain Sujit Raman said. "We rowed a very solid middle thousand, which is what we were looking...
Percy Spencer didn't know better than to bring candy with him into his microwave lab in 1946. When the American engineer, who was developing radar components for the Raytheon Corp., let his chocolate bar get too close to a piece of equipment, it turned into chocolate...
...Congress's Office of Technology Assessment had all the virtues sometimes claimed for science fiction. The OTA was concerned with genuine hard-core technological prediction. It paid close scholarly attention to technical trends and their social implications with facts, figures and footnotes--and Congress abolished it in the mid-1990s. The OTA didn't work out; science fiction suits us better. American society prefers having supergizmos dropped on its head out of nowhere, with no time to prepare and no real thought of the consequences. We love it that way. It's livelier, funnier, freer and just more American. "Leap...