Search Details

Word: papering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...still look at the 950 pages of paper bound in that book, and ask myself, did I do that?" he said. "The difficulty is creating a translation that maintains the meaning of the original text. We know perfectly well what Newton is saying, and we know what his intentions were, but it often took us weeks to determine how to say it in English. It required creative energy--a lot of creative energy to translate hundreds of pages of very particular mathematical proofs...

Author: By Sarah A. Dolgonos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cohen Updates 370-Year-Old Translation | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...Ever use an ID card to spread peanut butter? Wamback reports that he has "seen cards chewed up by dogs, run through a dish washer, burned, dropped in a paper shredder. Holes have been punched through the magnetic strip. Some have been broken when used to scrape ice from windshields. (Cards are more brittle at lower temperatures)." So don't confuse your card with a Swiss Army knife or you might find yourself out in the cold...

Author: By David M. Rosenblatt, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The ID Deconstructed | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...left his Yankees cap on his desk in his suite's common room. The next morning, his roommate Geoffrey M. Stevens '03 woke up around 11 a.m. He checked his e-mail and then went to the bathroom. The bathrooms in Matthews don't have any paper towels, just an ineffectual hand-dryer, so Stevens dried his hands with toilet paper. When he threw the wad of toilet paper in the garbage can, he saw it land on a Yankees cap. "I said, Hey, that looks like Jake...

Author: By Ben C. Wasserstein, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Waking Up to Crime in Matthews Hall | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

Harvard administrators point to page 302 of the Handbook for Students: "Students who sell lecture or reading notes, papers, or translations or who are employed by a tutoring school or term paper company [...] may be required to withdraw...

Author: By Graeme C. A. wood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professors Call Online Service for Class Notes Dishonest | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

Written simply in black pen on white paper, one poster read "Henry Northington: beheaded, severed head left on a footbridge in a public park...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yard March Protests Homophobia | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

Previous | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | Next