Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like Bean, Franz said she was drawn to the position because it offers the opportunity to work with students...
...task force will be chaired by Weatherhead Professor of Business Administration D. Quinn Mills, and will include five faculty members and three high-ranking administrators drawn from across the University...
...subjects, half of them men, half women. Witvliet finds "robust" physiological differences between nonforgiving and forgiving states. Subjects' cardiovascular systems inevitably labor when they remember the person who hurt them. But stress is "significantly greater" when they consider revenge rather than forgiveness. Witvliet suggests that we may be drawn to hold grudges "because that makes us feel like we are more in control and we are less sad." But interviews with her subjects indicate that they felt in even greater control when they tried to empathize with their offenders and enjoyed the greatest sense of power, well-being and resolution...
Along with the Modern Jazz Quartet and Charles Mingus, vocalist Connor was one of the first artists signed to Atlantic Records' fledgling jazz division in 1955. This compilation, drawn from her 12 albums for the label--most long unavailable--is proof she could hold her own in such rarefied company. Her virtues: a voice nearly as pure and clear as Ella Fitzgerald's, yet spiked at times with a smoky, un-Ella-like sensuality; and a deeply personal, even abstract sense of phrasing. How can you not like a singer who's brassy enough to belt Summertime as hard...
...could produce no evidence that in 1923 Zworykin had produced an operable television transmitter. Moreover, Farnsworth's old teacher, Tolman, not only testified that Farnsworth had conceived the idea when he was a high school student, but also produced the original sketch of an electronic tube that Farnsworth had drawn for him at that time. The sketch was almost an exact replica of an Image Dissector...