Word: marked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...morning after four hours of sleep to find 44 new e-mail messages in my inbox. Forty-two had been sent over the “Pf-Open” list, and the remaining two were the only ones relevant to my interests. It was disheartening to have to mark all the Pf-Open messages “opened,” promising myself that I’d read them when I got the time. I might as well have relegated them all to the spam folder...
...mark was not unarmed. In one deft movement, he leapt back and fired off a single burst from his Super Soaker as silver death arced through the air. And then, silence. The would-be assassin had failed...
Last Wednesday marked a strange assemblage of anniversaries: the 145th of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the 98th of the Titanic’s iceberg collision, and the 71st of John Steinbeck’s magnum opus, “Grapes of Wrath.” Among these decaying men and doomed machines stood Simone de Beauvoir, her death one year shy of its quarter-century mark. Although Lincoln gave us “four score and forty years,” the Titanic spawned an eponymous Hollywood blockbuster, and Steinbeck became the bane of freshman reading lists, Beauvoir?...
Oprah Winfrey, the great lunar mother who dictates the tides of daytime television, is stepping down. Not any time soon (the launch of the Oprah Winfrey Network isn’t until September 2011) but nevertheless her departure from syndication is a reality. To mark the occasion, let’s revisit the role of female talk show hosts, and consider why none have yet succeeded on late night television...
...mark of the Gordons on Harvard is hard to ignore. Members of the family invested in the Murr Center, in the outdoor track, and in the soccer program, among other sports. Albert F. Gordon ’59 said he gave around $10,000 for the women’s squash team to take a training and service trip to India in January. The Albert H. Gordon Track and Tennis Center and the Albert H. Gordon Professorship of Business Administration bear the name of his late father, the class of 1923 alumnus and former Crimson editor who ran track...