Word: leveller
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...beautiful wife is dying, or a thriller, with one spouse trying to kill the other - just two people facing the burdens of living together after the first passion has ebbed, when the idle words and gestures of the person you used to love threaten to ascend to the level of war crimes...
...team trying to help a saxophonist suffering from focal hand dystonia. (The neurological condition causes the hand to contract involuntarily, making it impossible for the musician to play his instrument.) “We wanted to design something that would help him get back to his former playing level,” Derse said. “After going through a few prototypes, we created a glove braced with three pieces of steel that held his fingers in position, allowing him to move his fingers when he wanted but preventing the involuntary contractions.” Business school...
...against some of the top talent in the nation. The Crimson (2-7, 1-1 CWPA) suffered consecutive drubbings by No. 4 Pepperdine and No. 6 Loyola Marymount on Friday night and Saturday morning. But, disheartening results aside, Harvard seems fully aware of the benefit of facing such high-level opposition.“Obviously, the weekend didn’t go the way we wanted it to,” sophomore Jeff Lee said. “But we can’t let [playing these top-10 teams] go to waste. We have to take our experiences from...
...specific ways, the Northwest Science Building is more tangible, “more animated and extroverted than other buildings on Harvard’s campus.”“Go Microchem!” is scribbled across a white board that forms a wall on the lobby level. Throughout the building, the verve of individual students is evident in the messages dashed off on the boards: a chemistry equation, a posted flyer for a lecture series. The walls here are personal. Walls speak to the students and—better yet—the students use them...
...with that. Here in Old Blighty, the birthplace of English, the dictionary's compilers face passionate resistance from language lovers who believe that any cull reduces the richness and variety that make language powerful - and leaves us all a bit dumber. "Newspapers are often accused of setting their reading level for 12-year-olds," one opponent wrote on an online message board. "Spare us dictionaries that do the same...