Word: perfective
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...breakthrough procedure in which a woman's windpipe was rebuilt using her own stem cells. The operation, performed on 30-year-old Claudia Castillo this past June, seeded a stripped-down segment of a donor's trachea with stem cells from Castillo's bone marrow, ensuring a perfect tissue match and reducing the likelihood of transplant rejection. The procedure has been championed as a milestone that could pave the way for radical improvements in organ transplants and the treatment of serious diseases...
...finesse. As journalist and musician Felix Contreras noted, Mitchell held his sticks like a jazz player, lightly between his thumb and two fingers, sometimes losing them during performances, to little negative effect. Still, he could propel a song: on tracks like "Fire" and "Manic Depression" he proved a perfect match for Hendrix's guitar. Even after the band split, the two performed together at Woodstock...
...mortgage crisis. They open up their filet mignon and go, hey, this is not filet mignon, this is a sausage!” Dugger and Stiglitz agreed that American companies should be as transparent as possible, but there are practical administrative problems that are tough to overcome, and a perfect solution is extraordinarily difficult. “All we have to do is to tell the banks that ‘You can’t deal with these countries that did not sign this global contract that promises financial transparency,’” Stiglitz said...
...perfect,” Murphy says. “For a defensive lineman, what could be more perfect? I told him if he ate too much at b. good he was going to be on the offensive line, and that was enough...
...best game,” Harvard (equipped with Tommy Lee Jones ’69) pulls through in the last 42 seconds to score 16 points, for the infamous 29-29 “win” ending a Yale 16-game winning streak and achieving the perfect 8-0-1 season. 1974: Milton Holt ’75 makes a 95 yard touchdown in final five minutes to win 21-16. 1975: Harvard finally wins its first Ivy championship, thanks to Michael J. Lynch ’77 who kicked a 26 yard field goal in the final seconds...