Word: hourse
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You stay up all night doing the reading for a section in which you will say approximately two things over the course of two hours. You pretend to listen as your classmates preface their statements with “I think it’s interesting that…,?...
The new rules also curtailed the length of the tailgate which began at 10 a.m. but ended two hours later at kickoff. Two years ago, the pre-game celebration continued until half-time.
Though Kuerti led the BSO off to a lukewarm start, Harrell’s sensitive performance soon warmed the audience to three hours of Romantic pieces, which ended on a note of exhaustion in the tragic theme of the Tchaikovsky symphony.
Qi Yu ’11, a mentor in the program, said she spends about three hours a week volunteering. One session with a mentee, she said, led from talking about electromagnetism to discussing binary numbers. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW]
It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps. With Wikipedia and Google, our generation is poor in knowledge, specialized or otherwise. While this would seem to be a weight off our minds, it also makes our thinking less profound. Unlike prior generations, who wiled away the hours...