Word: optimum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three years [as a TF] might be the optimum because you have some experience, but you're not bored yet," Wells said. "Another thing that helps is that I'm relatively young...
...Cabot Science Library, for listening to the students and creating a plan for a 24-hour library. The extra time to study in a quiet space is appreciated by students, who are currently stressing under the weight of innumerable final papers and exams. Opening Cabot full-time allows students optimum flexibility in planning their periods of study...
...open 24 hours a day. Chief Riley has said that he is working to create additional substations in the River and Quad houses. So I propose a Mather substation. A police station would certainly fit with the decor. Perhaps not the most centrally located spot, Mather is nevertheless an optimum location. Otherwise the wing of campus including Dunster, Leverett Towers, and Mather is the exposed right flank. The row of houses stretching from Kirkland to Old Leverett is always bright and never quite as abandoned my lone trek. East of DeWolfe Street there is another level of desertion that...
...possible, of course, that John Kennedy Jr. suffers a little from Woody Allen disease (a coquettish tendency to place oneself in optimum paparazzi zones and then act surprised when the flash goes off). Kennedy also has something of his mother's gift for the sly Cheshire's disappearance before your eyes. Some primitives have believed that every photograph taken of a man peels off a layer of his soul. If that were so, nothing would be left of John Kennedy Jr. without his mother's trick of metaphysically absenting herself from the frame--a way of ghost dancing with both...
Some hockey players have been known to eat chicken before every game to ensure their optimum performance. Others insist they must lace up their left skate ahead of their right...