Word: nook
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Celery, sweet potatoes and peanut sauce are not often found in sandwiches--let alone the same sandwich. But at this nook on Mt. Auburn, don't expect the ordinary. For about five dollars you can pick from a wide variety of wrap-style sandwiches; the cafe also makes a variety of natural shakes and smoothies for those with a sweet-tooth. While you're waiting for your order, sample some sounds at the free music kiosk that lines the wall...
...retired in 1989 [when the mandatory retirement law was in effect], but I would not have kept on teaching. The dean set up a nice situation...he built us a new building where we have own nook, our own secretaries and a place we can keep our books and can give a lecture," says Straus Professor of Business of History Emeritus Alfred D. Chandler Jr. "He did that very much on purpose--before we had a place known, as death row where you shared an office with three or so others after you retired...
...quick hint to Joe Pesci's oh-so-lovable-character: if you are trying to keep your asbestosis condition under control, the one place NOT to make your nest is in a nook of Widener Library...
...everything the genetic engineers have accomplished during the past half- century is just a preamble to the work that Collins and Anderson and legions of colleagues are doing now. Collins leads the Human Genome Project, a 15-year effort to draw the first detailed map of every nook and cranny and gene in human DNA. Anderson, who pioneered the first successful human-gene- therapy operations, is leading the campaign to put information about DNA to use as quickly as possible in the treatment and prevention of human diseases...
...that Harvard theater suffers from a deplorable shortage of immediately accessible technical support staff. What we need are in fact more Alans. To remove someone who has his hands on all the ropes, who has an intimate knowledge of every facet of Harvard student theater, who thoroughly knows every nook and cranny of the Agassiz, and replace him with someone who, for all his teaching qualifications, has to take time to rethink and relearn his experience to suit the demands of Harvard theater, probably represents the most economically inefficient decision ever made...