Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While they say academics are fairly equal, people use sports as a criterion to compare Harvard and Yale," says Yale senior Andrew E. Chau...
Bradford A. Lee, assistant professor of history, who graduated from Yale in 1970, says, "At Yale there's sort of a funny attitude to Harvard. At Yale people sort of want to prove they're equal to Harvard. I don't think Harvard people feel that way. They're too sure of their superiority...
...question-and-answer session occurred when a law student asked about a memo which the justice had written when he was a clerk at the court during the Brown v. Board of Education case, which began the process of desegregation. The memo said that the doctrine of "seperate but equal" "was right and should be affirmed." Rehnquist answered that he did not remember what he had said when his civil rights record almost cost him his appointment during his own Senate confirmation hearings...
...confess I am at a loss for a collegiate tack of equal scope and vision....I hope that, in view of our long-standing friendship despite disagreement, you will not be offended by my imitation. It is, after all, a kind of tribute...
...gems which he dispenses, he says, are "messages of hope." Style, he pronounces, is everything, and "equal" is a dead word. Your neighbors curiosity about you is a tribute to your individuality...