Word: loree
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...finances, FAS Diversity Advisor Lisa L. Martin issued a report on her efforts this semester. She outlined her hope to accommodate female junior professors, noting a study that found that 45 percent of tenured women at American universities do not have children.Kirby also dipped into his trove of Chinese lore when he opened the meeting, simultaneously wishing his colleagues a happy Chinese New Year—2006 is the Year of the Dog—and foreshadowing the discussion to come.“It seems that Harvard was conceived, if not quite born, in the Year...
...BOOK WAS BETTER: True Potter fans say Goblet luxuriated in fascinating detail (about Hogwarts and Voldemort lore) that the movie was obliged to ignore...
...Gambling lore is filled with tales of the lucky novice who walks into a casino and breaks the bank. This year it really happened. The fortunate neophyte is Vikrant Bhargava, who is from Rajasthan, India, and admits that he had never set foot in a casino until recently and still isn't all that fond of gambling. But in a single day in June, he and two colleagues walked away with the poker purse of all time: more than $1 billion in cash...
...April 18, 1916, and a volatile group of artists who'd found refuge from World War I in Switzerland were gathered around a table at Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire, arguing about a label for themselves and their work. They settled this dispute, according to art lore, by thrusting a letter opener randomly into a French-German dictionary. The word it pointed to - dada - has many meanings: "hobbyhorse" in French, "cube" in certain Italian dialects and "yes, yes" in Slavic languages. That night, they agreed on a name but continued to dispute what the word - and the movement - signified. Tristan Tzara...
...stadium once in the late 90’s, at Penn for the heartbreaker in 2000, even to non-league Fordham one sunny afternoon. Therefore I carry the pride that I entered the Harvard ranks with an uncanny wealth of background knowledge, an unusual steeping in the history and lore of the team, an uncommon disposition to devotion.I thought vainly that they’d fall on their faces. I should have known better. Didn’t we all get in here by near-acing a multiple-choice test?Everyone knew the current season was halfway done and that...