Word: digester
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...predominance of marble, Apley is widely considered to be the cream of the first-year housing—especially by those poor souls residing in the skim milk of first-year housing. Apley’s shell sconces over the water fountains, oaken moldings straight out of Architectural Digest and fireplaces worthy of an English country inn place it more than a few notches above Canaday. Jackson’s also quick to sing the praises of the “really, really tall doorways” and her room’s extraordinary pedigree—T.S. Eliot...
...Charles Hulse, a septuagenarian American from Arkansas and a veteran Galle Fort realtor, lived for years between Paris and the Greek Isle of Hydra before settling in a tastefully restored Galle Fort house with interiors fit for Architectural Digest. Hulse warns that the cost of restoring a fort house usually runs to 50% of the purchase price. "It is all very well to get a wonderful house near the ramparts for a song but unless you have someone on the spot to advise you and hold your hand, there are all sorts of problems that can cause major headaches...
Unfortunately, this philosophy is riddled with flaws. The constant grind to produce work means that students are left with less time to digest what they are reading—or sometimes even to read it at all. For example, my junior history tutorial last semester required weekly exercises to demonstrate the skills of source identification and provide detailed progress reports. Yet once I had finished producing the three utterly worthless pages of weekly drivel to demonstrate just how hard I was working on my project, there was no time left for meaningful work on my final paper. Quantity...
...keeps me alive.” Over three centuries and several thousand miles away, the Harvard students who are bombarded daily with a plethora of fine words—including, from time to time, Molière’s own—are still waiting for administrators to digest his message...
Lately, Britain's globe-trotting, crowd-pleasing telechefs have been losing air time (and book sales) to a new breed of celebrity: the telehistorian, serving up entertaining, easy-to-digest lessons about the past. In rapid succession, Simon Schama's blockbuster A History of Britain has been followed by Adam Hart-Davis' What the Tudors and Stuarts Did for Us and David Starkey's Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Now, with the timing of a busy sous chef, Niall Ferguson, Professor of Political and Financial History at Oxford University, launches Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (Allen...