Word: humes
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...Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean’s List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don’t just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
Past winners of the Humanitarian Award, originally established in 1984, include Bishop Desmond Tutu, John Hume, Elie Wiesel and Wilma Mankiller, the principle chief of the Cherokee nation...
Lingman and Chu set the tone for the day by defeating Witten and Esmail in the first doubles match, 8-5. After Riddell and Chiu lost at number two, Harvard’s Li and Chiou keyed a victory over Kentucky’s Evan Austin and Alex Hume, taking the first point...
After Witten defeated Lingman in singles to tie the score at one, Chu claimed the lead for Harvard by decisively upsetting No. 81 Austin, 6-3, 6-1. Li, playing for Harvard at No. 6, put the pressure on Kentucky by winning his match against Hume...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...