Word: highlight
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...Saturday afternoon, a talk by the mayor of Toronto provided a refreshing change from serious disussion and campus touring. The highlight of his talk was a bit of Canadian-American history: "In the War of 1812, the Scotch- Canadian soldiers marched down to Washington with their kilts, skirts, and other implements of war. They ate lunch at the President's Restaurant, and then, burnt it down. It was rebuilt and painted white, so Canada deserves credit for the White House...
...representatives did not forget another traditional part of the fire program, the fire rope. For indeed the "highlight" of Orientation Week is the sight of "Cliffe freshmen demonstrating their ability to lower themselves down the fire ropes in the gym. All the older halls have these ropes, but they are never used...
Meanwhile, highlight of the week: the cross country team, aiming for an undefeated season, meets Yale and Princeton in a home meet Friday. The Crimson is out to win its first triangular cross country championship since...
R.W.P. King, Gordon Mackay Professor of Applied Engineering, pointed out that most of the duplication is needed for confirmation of research discoveries. He also explained that "two scientists may work on the same problem, but highlight features that are entirely different...
...Highlight of Ayub's busy week was his first night in Washington, when he was guest of honor at Jackie Kennedy's imaginative fête champêtre at Mount Vernon. The silty Potomac glittered golden in the setting sun as 138 guests boarded four flower-laden boats (each with its own musicians) for the 15-mile cruise to George Washington's sprawling estate. The ladies had been instructed to wear short dresses (the better to clamber about Mount Vernon's expansive lawn), and the men wore white dinner coats-except, unaccountably-the clothes-conscious...