Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discovered, and which now, at the end of his monumental study, he quietly celebrated in sublime summation. The "tangled bank" he had initially attributed to an unnamed power, but in the third and subsequent editions, he included God in the evolutionary process. The book now ends on this glorious sentence, over which Raven exults: "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple...
...might expect that academics would be the pinnacle of your Harvard career. After all, it can't be the dining halls' savory baked tofu or the glorious architecture of Canaday Hall that win Harvard top honors in the U.S. News & World Report survey every year...
...than that, it awakens the desperation Chris has been quietly holding back. When Marion asks him what he has to worry about, Chris replies, "Nothing. That's what worries me." Toni forces him to ask himself, doesn't he like to have fun anymore? Whatever happened to all the glorious, glamorous plans he had? Now he's planning a photo book on the transportation systems of London. Isn't he bored with Marion and the mortgage? Doesn't he ever want to sleep with anyone else? We see Chris trying to have fun at a party...
...absolutely glorious morning," George L. Campbell '44 said. "The Yard looks as great as I've ever seen...
With no one to convert his glorious chances, and no one to stick up for him after receiving another punishing check on his slight frame, time finally caught up to the Great...