Word: gales
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...author is a genial man named Richard J. Light, the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education. He is a cheerleader masquerading as a statistician, and the tone of his book began to convince me that maybe all was not lost. I could still Make the Most of something. But of what? And what does that even mean? According to Light it’s somewhere between getting your money’s worth out of the academic experience and being personally happy. In his surveys he asks people to rate both academic and personal...
...world's largest ocean liner, the QUEEN MARY 2, made its first crossing from Southampton, England, to New York City last week amid much fanfare--and gale-force winds. Equipped with 10 restaurants, five pools and a planetarium, the 21-story vessel looked right at home amid Manhattan's skyscrapers. Even Donald Trump must have envied the publicity...
Mann wrapped up Saturday with five singles, all on low liners and sharp grounders, several to the opposite field. He had sat back and taken pitches the other way, instead of trying to drive the ball into the gale force winds in left—and it had paid...
Then, just before intermission, a catalytic gale blows in a tousled malcontent called Lovborg (John C. Dewis). He’s brilliant, he’s wry and he’s long been nursing a passion for Hedda. And when he and Hedda butt heads, they touch off a string of events with uniformly tragic consequences...
...speaks of one of the graduates of the university which has so well maintained its existence under the dominion of Zona Gale as possessed of "sex eternally calling for mild satisfaction like that of the Western student who went to Harvard to do graduate work and wrote to a chum that he should go crazy if he didn't find pretty soon-some nice girl be could kiss." This explains much. Many have wondered just why the usual denizen of Widener appeared more like a carrion crow minus the carrion than a human being in search of truth. The other...