Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson (13-5 overall) was such the master last night that it cashed in twice on the same play. Early in the first period, defenseman Don Sweeney took a pass from John Weisbrod, returning to the lineup for the first time since December 6 (when he suffered a knee injury against Colgate) and slipped down the left side of the ice. Ten feet from the net, Sweeney dished a pass to John Murphy, who had put up a pup tent in front of the Cadet...
Eliot House Master Alan Heimert said it was "nice" to be hosting Ferraro. He said he had agreed to let her use a suite normally reserved for short-term guests in order "to be friendly to the K-School...
...meant it in a sarcastic way. They are there to check students, they are not students of higher education. If [people] took offense, I'm sorry." --Quicy House Master Michael Shinagel, explaining his comment at a private gathering that the house had restrictive interhouse dining policies because the dining hall workers" can't do higher order math." (10/30/87...
...grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject might very well mean something to a grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into...
...commission's proposal would bring under one master two radically different kinds of markets. An investor who buys stock gets tangible shares of a corporation, which can be held for the long term. The person who buys or sells a stock-index future, in contrast, is making a short-term bet on which direction the overall market is going to go in the near future, usually a month or less. Thus the Chicago Merc is used primarily by brokerage firms and speculators seeking quick profits, and by money managers who want to hedge their portfolios against losses in the stock...