Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What began more than a week ago as a late-night notion thought up by some Adams House residents to declare war on rivals in Pforzheimer House ended yesterday afternoon in the Pforzheimer House dining hall, with a few members of each House dressed in drag, and everyone cheering...
Again. And finally they get it right, the five impeccably lighted iMacs gleaming as they glide forward smoothly on the giant screen. "Oh! Right there! That's great!" Jobs yells, elated at the very notion of a universe capable of producing these insanely beautiful machines. "That's perfect!" he bellows, his voice booming across the empty auditorium. "Wooh...
...serve, one theory builds on research done by Rockefeller University's Fernando Nottebohm, who found evidence that the brain generates new cells to record events into memory, as opposed to the long-held belief that memories are formed solely through connections of existing neurons. Nottebohm's theory buttresses the notion that decreased production of brain cells as we age helps explain lapses in short-term memory ? and, conversely, that if brain cell growth can be increased then short-term memory can be improved...
...notion that students might be somehow discontented at Harvard is not a particularly radical idea. Nor is it worthwhile to pursue the topic without refining such vague generalizations. Still, Purdy's remarks may be illuminating when placed in the broader context offered by his recent book, For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today...
...recall. Long time ago. For some few years now I've been telling fellow Sox fans, "I sure hope they win it in my dad's lifetime." They nod knowingly. They either have dads, had dads or are dads ? or moms, this applies to moms, too ? and no notion can be voiced in New England that gives as immediate and sobering a view of mortality as "I hope the Sox win it in our lifetime." So many lifetimes that, during which, the Red Sox have already failed...