Word: lugged
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...That's the bad news; the good news is that the days of teachers' having to navigate through error-strewn, out-of-date texts--and of kids' having to lug 30-lb. book bags--are almost over. The major publishers, fearful of yet another report slamming their product, have hired more fact checkers and instituted extra layers of review. More significant, this month McGraw-Hill plans to launch its first e-textbooks--online versions of its printed texts, featuring videos, interactive lab exercises and personalized assessment tools. Factual errors, once discovered, will be corrected immediately. Five years from...
Like many other students, I carry a lot of books. My backpack is usually filled with core reading or a science textbook, and I lug these books around so that I can do some reading between classes. As the hour of class comes, I pack in my books as best I can--it feels like a real world version of Tetris--and get ready to head to class. But I'm always stopped by the guard who wants to look through my bag, take out some unspecified selection of them to "check," and then lets me go, with my privacy...
...STARTED The lug sole adopted by punk rockers in the 1970s picked up speed during the swing revival...
...will remember when I was required by pesky editors to order dinner for 50 entirely off the Internet, including a person to help serve. When that person, like so much else, didn't show up, the Senator got his own drink, and Hadassah rolled up her silk sleeves to lug the ham and side dishes to the table, never mentioning that there was nothing she and Joe could eat. She keeps him from holding forth in the Great Man way, having told him one time long ago that "there was one less Great Man in the world than he might...
...schooner Larinda, an 86-foot long ship out of Cape Cod, was one of the most exotic ships in the parade. The Larinda, which features distinctive battened lug sails, was built as a replica of a colonial Boston schooner...