Word: meres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sophomore Lora Rowning and freshman Lee Polikoff threw a pair of two-hit shutouts against the Quakers, with Rowning tossing a mere 59 pitches in her complete game performance...
...fees to receive a portion of it. There are enough miseries, furies and counterplots to satisfy the most demanding court buffs and gossip freaks, but the book's essential message is a reliable old crowd pleaser: unlimited funds are no guarantor of happiness; if the wound is deep enough, mere money is only a Band...
...work at least as much a part of the great artist--that genius which is peculiar to and defines him--as the child is of the surrogate mother? I would argue that it is even more so. The moral strength of "motherhood" doesn't derive from the mere carrying of the child. The mechanical rigors of childbirth are common to all women. The spirit and personality of the parent are not imparted so much in the biological production of the child as in the nurturing and rearing...
...race gave Berkoff sweet revenge in another way as well. Princeton's Richard Hughes, who defeated Berkoff in the race at the Eastern Championships last month by a mere. 04 seconds, managed only a third-place showing behind the Harvard and Stanford swimmers...
...body but the heart. The practice of hiring substitute soldiers to take one's place in the military, common to the armies of Napoleon, Washington and the Czars, theoretically involved a transfer of patriotism. But patriotism proved untransferable. Ranks were filled with the poor who needed the pay or mere mercenaries, not citizens inspired with love of country. Armies suffered; the practice stopped...