Word: momentous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...moment in Friday night’s game against Columbia, it looked like history was repeating itself, and that was not good news for the Harvard men’s basketball team. In the last meeting between these two squads, the Crimson built a 10-point lead early in the second half and led by as much as six in the final five minutes, but the Lions switched into a zone defense that stymied Harvard’s offense. Columbia eventually overtook the Crimson and won, 60-59, on a lay-in with four seconds left. On Friday, Harvard...
...came in and the state was broke, lots of people were out of work, and there was lots of hand-wringing about how we could move forward. Having turned the state around and now being back in positive times is a pivotal moment that allows us to move forward and do better things." On her gubernatorial achievements. Harvard Political Review...
...still some way from splitting asunder - another summit in Brussels will take place over two days at the end of the month. But at the moment, the odds are that it will involve more long lunches, and more papering over the cracks...
...years to reach them. The light from Venus, however, takes only a few minutes to reach us. We look out into the night sky and record an impression of what is out there and we are inclined to think that that is how it is now, at this moment. Yet that now is made up of many nows, overlaid to make what we take to be a record of some event in the life of the universe rather than some subjective experience. Where now is in the universe is no more apparent than where its center...
...words from their black binder, occasionally moving around the set but never breaking out of character.The actors resisted Gray’s minimalist aesthetic at times and tried to sensationalize Gray’s emotions, in the process rendering his measured words overly dramatic. In one such moment, Ain Gordon choked up while reading Gray’s journal entries detailing his slip into mental decline. Instead of successfully conveying the subtlety of Gray’s emotion, the effect was laughable.As with any story with such a dark and well-known ending, “Stories Left to Tell?...