Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prototypical attempt to disguise oneself involves hiding behind a pair of impenetrably dark sunglasses, pulling a wide-brimmed hat down low over the brow and wearing slobby non-descript clothes. The method is used ostentatiously by Hollywood stars and ridiculously by cliched private eyes in detective flicks...
...PULLING ONESELF OVER A RAIL is like a good old-fashioned pull-up," Lambacker says. "Doing sets to failure will get you strong...
...students hit the streets in search of summer housing. Last year I fell in step with the crowd and, combing through the leftovers, I found gold. It was fully furnished, with nice off-street parking, a sizable bedroom, even a front porch to park one's bike-or oneself-on after a long day. All that was lacking in the housing deal, it seemed, was the deposit...
...late. A friend of my father's once intended to take a still-frame photo of his face every day for 50 years using a movie camera. The idea was, as I understand it, to eventually play the entire reel from beginning to end, and thus watch oneself age a half-century in several minutes. I'm not sure if he ever carried through with the plan, whether in fact he is dutifully snapping a picture of his face every morning...
...restricted pool of candidates from which it must hire if it is to maintain its level of excellence. In addressing the issue of faculty diversity, one must consider the issue of race at every level in our academic system, including the time required to get a Ph.D. and establish oneself as one of the most highly regarded authorities in one's field. I don't deny that faculty diversity is a problem, but it's certainly not simply a matter of changing hiring practices...