Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But because there are so few like Mickey Leland, we should never forget him.
One of the few undergraduates to actually crack the system was the now-legendary Donald Carswell '50. He offered some advice to fellow exam-takers in his article, "Beating the System," for which he won the Dana Reed Prize in 1951 for excellence in undergraduate writing. The Crimson has been...
He is right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for...
How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deoderant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and that...
In 1974 the elder Hwang, by then a C.P.A., launched Far East National Bank, which specialized in loans to Asian immigrants and which now has four branches in California. Two years after the bank opened, he was kidnaped for ransom, then released within a few hours after the money was...