Word: originated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know quite a few students in depth," he says. "These are not just students of Chinese origin but are also students studying Chinese in our departments...
...Copley's work as the origin of one of the main lines of American painting: that empirical realism that, disdaining frills of style and "spiritual" grace notes, tried in all its sharpness (and, occasionally, bluntness) to engage the material world as an end in itself. Later figures in this line would be John James Audubon and Thomas Eakins. But Copley was the first. He took the linear, enumerative style of early American effigy painting and made it peculiarly grand--not through rhetoric, as in the "grand manner," but through the candor of its curiosity. He did not edit...
...Science A and B--students would have the choice and rigor that they deserve. This would be the first step on the way to a system of distributional requirements. The second step would be the deletion of all courses that could not be funnelled back into their departments of origin, in order to insure a substantive curriculum within distributional areas...
...Lewis Carroll's feisty heroine, is totally passive, grounded only in the vagaries of each passing moment. He is guided through tall doors and short doors; he repeatedly takes, or is taken on, long car trips, only to discover that he can easily walk back to his point of origin. But he hardly ever seems surprised by or interested in the oddities of his situation. Why do people keep complimenting him on an after-dinner speech he failed to deliver? Why do all the local monologists speak--I dare say, mind you, if I may say so--in polite British...
...granted, the preliminary injunction would prohibit the defendants from further assaulting, harassing, threatening or intimidating the alleged victim or anyone else in the state on the basis of race and/or national origin...