Word: fillingham
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...their purposes,” said Harvard Bernbaum Professor of Literature Professor Daniel Albright. “In general, if you say caliginous when you mean dark, you are off the beaten track.” Complex words in student writing sometimes seem out of place, said Lydia A. Fillingham, a preceptor of the Harvard Expository Writing Program. “One thing people do a lot of is use the noun form instead of a verb. Instead of using ‘spent more,’ they write ‘spending increased...
Junior Andrew Krna, freshman Jon Voith and sophomore Bill Cocks swept second through fourth in the 200-yard freestyle, negating the gains made when Dartmouth’s Yale Fillingham had touched the wall first only seconds before...