Word: hand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Having earned a Ph. D. in chemistry before assuming the helm of the University, Conant was hand-picked by Roosevelt to function as the president's liaison to the scientists at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory--the physicists and military experts who made the United States a nuclear power...
...days is not at hand. Graduation isn't the Rapture, and although they might see themselves as the elect, the senior gift committee isn't destined for any better of a life than the rest of us. Our lives until now have been spent in school, but the end of our lives as we have known them doesn't mean that our lives are ending. It doesn't matter that you won't make the "Alumni Notes" section of next spring's Harvard Magazine because, whether you just spent the last two hours vomiting sangria in a Barcelona gutter...
...only Harvard undergraduates, absolutely certain of the common knowledge of their species-specific traits (an irrepressible diligence so extreme and potentially psychologically hazardous that the Harvard environmental protection agency must be constantly aware of the threat of extinction to their genius), would righteously crave the wisdom of the firm hand which would put a lock on the library door Friday nights...
...hectic time, not a time for clowning around, because there was a lot of business at hand," Sorrento said. "He had a good heart but was tough as nails on anybody to get the best out of them...
...hectic time, not a time for clowning around, because there was a lot of business at hand," Sorrento said. "He had a good heart but was tough as nails on anybody to get the best out of them...