Word: merely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last season, Harvard (2-4-1 overall, 2-4-1 ECAC) left Starr with a mere two losses and a lock on the league lead. Last night, the Crimson walked out with its fourth loss--one more than it had all last season--and a standing far from Colgate (7-1-0, 6-1-0) and first place...
...Archbishop Tutu's candidacy for the Board of Overseers created quite a fuss among alumni last year, and both sides of the divestment issue took turns at dishing out the rhetoric. Robert P. Wolff '54, who directs the pro-divestment alumni group which nominated Tutu, often said Tutu's mere presence on the Board could force Harvard to divest completely from South Africa-related investments...
This inexperience led to problems against Columbia, as five races were decided by mere tenths of a second, but last night, the talent of Harvard's team more than compensated for its youth...
Sotheby's has never said anything specific about its loans in its catalogs, or given any information on its guarantees except that they exist. To Sotheby's, a mere announcement in the catalog that it offers such financial services is enough to comply with the law. But its use to the buyer is nil -- and is meant to be. Disclosure might be chilling to other bidders. Or at least vulgarly explicit. Which auctioneers would rather die than be. One is not, after all, selling rusty tin Mickey Mice and kitchen chairs in a rented hall in Vermont...
...remembered how I would have reacted in high school to someone who actually went to the Harvard-Yale game. There was a time when I was repulsed by the mere idea that thousands of Harvard and Yale students and alumni would really fill a stadium to cheer about how great their school was and how the other school sucked, while a few big guys down on the field ran around and tackled each other all afternoon...