Word: key
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Anthony Romano '90, who is currently working with the after-school program and plans to continue this summer, said he helps the refugee children because "acquiring English skills is the key to being acclimated to the American culture." The benefits are not one-sided, he added. "I hope to learn from them as much as they learn from...
...originated as a 13- part program on Britain's Granada Television. It has been adapted and Americanized under the aegis of two PBS stations, Los Angeles' KCET and New York City's WNET. Roughly two-thirds of the material in the U.S. version is new, including clips, interviews with key figures from TV's past and narration by former NBC Newsman Edwin Newman...
...seems pretty obvious that in any discussion of the various methods whereby the crafty student attempts to show the grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject might very well mean something to a grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
Senior Eric Mitchell was the key for the Elis down the stretch, as the center pumped in 19 points on 8-for-11 shooting from the field to put Yale ahead for good...