Word: holdfast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...porpoises. Kelp, giant forests of seaweed by which Darwin was enthralled, shows only at the top. These plants, which can grow at a rate of 20 in. a day, reach down 100 ft. to granite reefs. The kelp is tethered by stipes-stems, structures that connect the base, or holdfast, to the leaflike blades. Gas-filled floats at the base of the blades keep the fronds standing upright...
...remember lying in bed that day, worrying howI would get through Harvard. Now, two years later,I know that getting though is seldom the realchallenge because it's virtually guaranteed thatyou will. In the meantime, you'll have to holdfast to whatever it is you most value aboutyourself because Harvard will probably give it agood shaking up. Which, in retrospect, is notwithout benefit. After that incident with myEnglish professor, I became hell-bent on improvingmy writing. I needed, more than anything, tojustify the writer I believed I was, and the one Ihoped to become. And so, with...