Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about... (d) to give early opportunity for the student to test strenuously his academic pre-dispositions." (p. 8) "The seminars were in no sense to replace departmental courses; they were, ideally, to heighten their impact." (p. 17) "We did not worry that by pursuing a focused inquiry we would lose sight of breadth or method--we hoped, rather, that in the pursuit the student would discover breadth and method..." (p. 39) The report continually emphasizes the value of close association with an academic specialist as a means of learning at first-hand "the nature of scholarly inquiry: its rigor...
Confession v. Alibi. When the details of the confession checked out in Portsmouth, Loughan was charged with murder. "I felt confident that I could not lose the case even if I conducted it standing on my head," recalls Joshua David Casswell, who was the prosecutor in the court proceedings that followed. But to Casswell's chagrin, Loughan dismissed his confession as the kind of casual lie he enjoyed telling the police, claimed he spent the night of the murder sheltered from the blitz in London's Warren Street subway station-and produced five independent witnesses to prove...
...years ago, hoping to win the evening with a long-hair practice number selected from a Juilliard textbook. "If you sing that, you will probably win," Godfrey's musical director told her. "But you're a beautiful girl. If you sing a pop song, you'll lose, but you will get all kinds of job offers." That's what she did-and she was off on the nightclub circuit...
...when he makes the mistake of going to a party held by a high Nazi official in an elegant château. The symbol of Nazi Germany, Author von Abele suggests, is not an armed camp or an insane asylum but this grand, lurid party in which decent men lose their bearings and capitulate to monsters...
...best amateur squash squad in the United States will undoubtedly lose the intercollegiate team championship at West Point this weekend--for the simple reason that the "team" title goes not to the best nine men in the country but only to the top four-man squad...