Word: hunts
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...rising, and the huge, poor mass of Asia and Africa was stirring into self-awareness. Hillary and Tenzing went to the Himalayas under the auspices of the British Empire, then recognizably in terminal decline. The expedition was the British Everest Expedition, 1953, and it was led by Colonel John Hunt, the truest of true English gentlemen. It was proper to the historical moment that one of the two climbers immortalized by the event came from a remote former colony of the Crown and the other from a nation that had long served as a buffer state of the imperial...
Both University Marshal Richard M. Hunt and Commencement Director Grace A. Scheibner see next spring's Commencement as a prime time to celebrate Harvard's rich history while greeting the new millennium...
...They are] romantic, I guess they are still newlyweds," says Woodruff, who with her husband, journalist Al Hunt, often socialize with Greenspan and Mitchell. "They know each other very well--they are just a fun-loving couple that complement each other beautifully. She reads his mind, and I think he probably reads hers. They are just very dear, dear people...
...envelope contained a card with two rhyming clues and a confusing number. "KEM 535.4 .A37 1999," it read. The hunt was on. To Horn, who had recently completed her thesis, it was obvious that it was a call number. And Schulman had recently shown her a Hollis function to look up call numbers. So she looked...
...asked, she answered: Rosen sent Rappaport on a treasure hunt around Boston, through places that had played significant roles in their relationship. Among the stops: a kosher Chinese restaurant in Brookline, the site of their first meeting; Tealuxe, the site of their first date; and Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, where Rosen was formerly the chair...