Word: odd
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...Believe me,” he adds, “I know the best of the journalists from Nigeria who were educated here in the ’80s—they are doing odd jobs in New York because nobody was ready to give them a chance. Because nobody thought they knew anything...
...seems odd to award honors to students who have not earned honors in their concentrations, given that work in the concentration is the most important component of undergraduates’ work here,” Pedersen wrote in an e-mail earlier in the semester...
...palate, self-tanners, much like the cosmetics that one applies after the tanner has set, stop at caramel. Rather they take that caramel color and shine it up a bit, give it a one-part-sun-kissed-sweat-mixed-with-two-parts-South-of-France-glow for a metallic, odd-looking color aptly named bronze. As I read the June issue of Glamour, it seemed that a race of she-bots stared back at me, their bronze metallic skin glowing in the studio-filtered sun, their blonde hair only slightly lighter than their newly tanned skin. All of the winter...
...think definitely I was my own worst enemy the first two innings,” Nyweide said. “I think I threw 50-some odd pitches. One of the things I learned from the summer was basically you fake it ‘til you make it and you just got to keep plugging and we finally had a few quick innings...
Last year, the Yale lightweight crew won both the Goldthwait Cup and the Eastern Sprints crown, only to watch Harvard win the national title by less than a second. The championship continued Harvard’s unusual streak of winning at IRAs every odd year since 1991. 2002 has come with no guarantees, but the Crimson rowers are making the adjustments to enjoy their time on the water—changes that will hopefully translate into speed...