Word: fall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were [thinking] very seriously about canceling the program for fall," Nathans said...
...acknowledged the lullaby power of their voices. Earlier this year, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civic Policy Thomas Scanlon demanded that his students, "Open all the windows! It's 90 degrees in here. I want a challenge! It would be too easy to make you all fall asleep in a room this warm...
...Paul J. Macdonald, whose family has owned the historical establishment Leavitt and Pearce (est. 1883) for the past 15 years, says that "every fall, a fresh batch of freshmen come in," many with the assumption that a Harvard man smokes a pipe. (Not all of his customers are male, of course, though his female customers are mostly European women.) Macdonald sees it as a rite of passage, one that is often quickly discarded due to the amount of patience and work one must put into his or her pipe. It's amusingly easy, after all, to spot a novice pipe...
...what do investment bankers do, anyway? The long hours and fat paychecks are legendary. But the vast majority of seniors who wander into the recruitment fair each fall probably have no idea how they'll actually end up spending all those hours. Is this productive, meaningful work, as exciting and intriguing as the brochures claim? Or just old-fashioned drudgery at a hundred hours a week? Is the young analyst an empowered executive or simply a glorified wage slave...
Lecturer on Education Vicki A. Jacobs, who co-authored with Chall The Reading Crisis: Why Poor Children Fall Behind (1990), said Chall constantly applied her research to her work with the literacy...