Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Berman said he hopes CUE's planned establishment of a prize for teaching for non-tenured faculty would "provide incentives for junior professors to devote more attention and time to teaching as a worthwhile end in itself."
In a surprise shift, Frank J. Weissbecker is appointed chief of the Harvard Police, replacing William Lee, who says he plans to devote himself full-time to "keeping my pitching arm in shape." Best-selling author Sherman Holcombe is appointed acting director of University Food Services.
Not even the most ardent oceanographer is likely to devote whole weeks to this huge tome on the wet 75% of the earth's surface. But anyone who is interested in the ocean-from Jacques Cousteau to the vacationing urbanite curious about the formation of a beach-should enjoy...
Samuel Johnson, in his own idiosyncratic dictionary, defined lexicographer as a "harmless drudge." Murray was a delightful drudge of enormous energy. Born in a small Scottish village and largely self-taught (a process that saved him from mere pedantry), Murray could pick up languages as if he were shopping for...
Ross first met Chavez in San Jose in 1952, he said. The two worked together in the Community Service Organization until Chavez left in 1962 to devote all his time to organizing Chicano farm workers.