Word: far-flung
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...far-flung adjectives have been thrown around to describe the hockey rivalry between Harvard and Boston University. And judging by what you hear, you might think the series between the two teams has been pretty even the past few years. It hasn...
...pursuit of the liberal arts ideal, Harvard has bitten into the pomegranate of knowledge and spit the seeds into a dozen far-flung bureaucratic boxes, letting most of the juice dribble away. Ec 10 pokes tentatively into the other boxes from time to time, but Harvard's departmentalization won't let it go too far. As a result, Ec 10 is not a course on the American economy nor does it claim to be. It teaches instead one particular branch of one particular discipline...
...Pyramids of the Moon and the Sun and avenue-like Street of the Dead-as a ceremonial center inhabited largely by priests and their retainers. Now, new discoveries suggest that between A.D. 400 and 700, Teotihuacan was literally the Big Apple of Mesoamerica, the focus of a far-flung empire that stretched from the arid plains of central Mexico to the mountains of Guatemala...
...major writer who was underrated by the critical-academic axis sometimes called The Literary Establishment." If such an axis existed, Bruccoli would be a card-carrying member; as a professor of English at the University of South Carolina and director of the Center for Editions of American Authors (a far-flung scholarly empire churning out overfootnoted and overpriced texts), he is a totally critical academic...
...later books the victims are as villainous as the killer. In Murder at the Savoy (1971), a tycoon is shot during an after-dinner speech, his death mask etched in mashed potatoes. He turns out to have been a major white-collar crook with, among other things, a far-flung gunrunning empire. The eponymous Abominable Man is, of all things, a police superintendent. After someone slices the man in half with a bayonet, Beck compiles an appalling dossier of his brutalities. Many instances are easily available in the Ombudsman's files, all marked "No action...