Word: construct
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...course this is not the first time the media has wasted ink on Harvard’s sexual exploits. When a few members of the Harvard crew team decided to construct a nine-foot snow phallus last February, they triggered a school-wide controversy that soon captured national news attention. After the structure was destroyed in the name of feminism, the campus—and the nation—erupted into an impassioned debate on the merits of a snow depiction of male genitalia. The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe and The Washington Times all devoted editorial space...
...department and African and African-American Studies in general by placing it within the core as an option to fill the Historical Studies A requirement. This allowed individuals genuinely interested in the history of black people in America or the development of race as an American social construct to explore their interests without feeling as though they were giving up valuable space in their course schedules...
When Mike Larsen was five years old, cars or buildings weren’t just the playthings of his imagination—he wanted to know how to construct them and would often make modest attempts in his backyard. Later, while mining his mother’s record collection—a mix of Sly, Metallica and Sugar Hill Gang—he grew curious about how to build these...
...plummet followed close behind. If John Kerry pulls out a victory in New Hampshire, part of it will be because the press hasn’t gotten around to developing a negative narrative for him. As long as the events can outpace the media’s ability to construct a novelistic story around them, the voters may have some control; but it doesn’t take long to spin a tale...
...exchange, Harvard would need to construct a new building nearby that would provide housing for the existing 213 families, with the same ratio of affordable and subsidized apartments along with new amenities like washer and dryer hookups in each unit...