Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know if they were expressing doubt about whether I needed to go to the hospital, but the real problem for me was the lack of support for a decision I had already made," she wrote...
...intrusive because I want students to make their own decisions," Avery said. "I usually follow up after a while and say, 'Let me know how you're doing.' I'll send an e-mail...letting them take the first steps...
...offer our sincere and wide-eyed promise that we will not smash your Ming vases as we play our rainy-day games. In return, why not allow your all-too-serious future investment bankers a chance to kill or be killed. It's not all fun and games, we know, but we wish it were...
...many of us insist on showing our parents only the superficial gloss? We've scanned today's class schedule searching for marquee professors, we'll proudly show-off the magisterial interior of Sanders Theatre, and we’ll probably even pretend that our House Masters know our names. What we should do is have our parents sit with us for an hour while we churn out a senseless response paper. That would give them a clearer picture...
...explanation for this phenomenon is that we simply don't want to air all of our dirty laundry. Unless they're part of the Harvard family, better they shouldn't know that there's no advising system to speak of. More importantly, we recognize that the weight of our diplomas rests on Harvard's reputation in the outside world. Unless we cooperate every year to attract a new crop of the best and brightest, that reputation and consequently our own standing will suffer. In the case of the our parents, we just want them to feel that the great cost...