Word: dexterity
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Chiseled over the Dexter Gate to Harvard Yard on Mass. Ave. is a surprising inscription. On the street side, the inscription reads "Enter to Grow in Wisdom"--nothing terribly shocking for a University. But the message written on the Yard side of the gate betrays its age: "Depart to Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind." These words designate the gate a relic, a memento from a time that has surely left us behind. The inscription, composed by Harvard President Charles William Eliot, class of 1893, elegantly expresses a concept of the university that seems archaic and foreign these days...
...tobacco, has proclaimed his determination to make hash of his political enemies and refile the suit if necessary. "The Governor has made it very clear [that] if you expect access to this office to get the great favors, you're with him in this issue," says his general counsel, Dexter Douglas. "We've adopted fixed bayonets, and when that order comes, that's it. It's them or you. You start using the knives when the bullets...
Then began a strange period of drifting that led, prosecutors charge, toward Oklahoma City. In the military, McVeigh had become close friends with Terry L. Nichols, who was later to be charged as an accomplice in the bombing; after leaving the service, McVeigh moved to the Dexter, Michigan, farm owned by Terry's older brother James. Neighbors later reported that explosions had been set off outside the farmhouse. People who met McVeigh during this time noticed that he always carried a weapon. Some witnesses claim that he became involved in the notorious Michigan militias, ad-hoc paramilitary groups preaching armed...
HARVARD: Demian 1-5 4-4 6; Hill 5-10 1-2 13; Gilmore 6-11 0-1 12; Beam 0-0 3-4 3; Dexter 1-1 0-0 2; Weaver 6-11 0-0 14; Scott 2-3 2-2 6; Snowden 6-10 3-3 15; Rankin 1-2 0-0 2; Grancio 3-4 5-5 11; Fisher 2-5 0-0 4; Ewing 0-0 1-2 1. TOTALS...
...Storry 0-0 0-0 0; Newton 0-6 2-2 2. TOTALS 19-5 1 7-13 47. Harvard: Domian 3-8 0-1 7; Hill 3-5 3-4 10; Gilmore 4-9 2-2 13; Beem 2-3 1-1 6; Dexter 0-0 0-0 0; Weaver 4-8 2-2 11; Scott 3-6 0-1 7; Snowden 7-12 2-3 16; Grancio 4-7 0-0 9; Fisher 3-7 0-0 6; Ewing 0-0 0-0 0. TOTALS...