Word: dint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intentional flip side of this admissions coin is that the minority students who do come to Harvard are by and large academically high-powered. "Our population of minorities seems to have gotten here by dint of hard work," says Marlyn M. Lewis '70, assistant dean of the College. Many of these students simply have no desire to play varsity athletics...
...Legend thats a picter whats depicted which is to say pictert on a wall its done with some kynd of paint callit fidelity. St is short for sent. Meaning this bloak Eustace he dint jus tern up he wer sent...XVth century parbly thats old spel for some kynd of senter where they done this thing theyre telling of.... "Wooded landscape with many small hamlets." Well thats littl pigs innit...
...dint of sacrifice and subterfuge, the Poles scrape by somehow, and no one is starving. Families save their coupons for ham or pork on Sunday or buy on the black market. Says Stanislaw Szczepanski, Vice Minister of Agriculture: "To Poles, a meal is not a meal without a piece of pork. It is a matter of status." Those who cannot get meat make do on Sunday with pierogi, pastry stuffed with a kind of cottage cheese...
AMERICAN POLITICIANS rarely advance by dint of ideological purity. One campaign and they learn how to compromise; one term, and they learn to praise compromise as the essential virtue of those who would govern themselves. Paul Tsongas, who ten years ago served on the Lowell city council and now sits in the U.S. Senate, is no exception. He has, with all sincerity, traded in his liberal baggage, handsome though it was, for it simply wasn't strong enough. Now he's got an ideological American Tourister ensemble; it may not hold too much, and its aesthetic is function, not beauty...
Generals McCarthy and Rowny are less likely to be reassured by Generals Milshtein and Kozlov these days because the Soviets have skewed the arithmetic of deterrence by dint of the sheer, simple and very large numbers on their side. In so doing, the U.S.S.R. has left the U.S. with no choice but to balance the strategic equation by making additions to its own arsenal. -By Strobe Talbott