Word: gem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...remember correctly, question 7 asked you to spell Magellan correctly. I wondered why the class list of "Gas Stations" was identical to the eligibility list for the varsity football team. And yes, walking into Memorial Hall for Paul Freund's no longer given "Legal Process" (believe me, a gem), I looked around and actually thought I had walked into Dillon Field House by mistake. As athletes often quoted about the work load at Harvard, we like to think of ourselves as directly responsible for the Core Curriculum proposals...
...anyone doubts that today's obvious problems are neither unique nor insurmountable, let him join Lyet on one of his frequent visits to the 19th century world of Manhattan's University Club, an architectural gem on Fifth Avenue. In a plastic case under a high-vaulted ceiling is a copy of the New York Tribune, opened to the same day of the same month 100 years ago. Lyet is always reassured to read that the worries of 1879 have a familiar ring. "There were problems with international relations. Somebody was always threatening somebody else. And people were getting...
John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, of NBC's Saturday Night and other fame, have released a gem of an album under the guise of the Blues Brothers, an act first spawned to warm up Saturday Night studio audiences a year or so back. Perhaps you have caught a couple of their subsequent appearances on the show, decked out in black suits, fedoras, and shades that would have done a G-man proud (circa 1962). Steve Martin, who guest hosted one show on which the Brothers performed, was sufficiently impressed to ask them to open eight shows...
DIED. Harry Winston, 82, showy Fifth Avenue gem merchant who sold $175 million worth of precious stones annually; of a heart attack; in New York City. A jewelry salesman from age 15, Winston became one of the world's largest diamond dealers by outbidding competitors for famous stones like the Jonker and Hope as well as by producing cheap engagement rings wholesale for Montgomery Ward. His refusal to be photographed, ostensibly to avoid being recognized and possibly robbed, only increased his visibility in business...
Since he could not have what he wanted, he tried to want what he could have... that clause might be the key to this little gem of a book. Detailing his life up until his sixth year on a hard-scrabble south Georgia farm during the Depression, Crews joyously, almost perversely, catalogues the variety of horrors that can befall a young child. But the book is much more than just a catalogue, more than just biography--it is, as Crews writes, "the biography of a childhood which necessarily is the biography of a place, a way of life gone forever...