Word: perfective
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...pencil and a sketchbook? Or that dressing the turkey—unlike dressing the dog—didn’t call for a sweater and a pair of argyle socks? Read in college, on the other hand, Amelia Bedelia looks less like an amusing language lesson than a perfect modern parable for the restrictive role that language plays in socioeconomic class mobility, particularly among immigrant populations...
...meet did not have a direct bearing on the EISL title this year—Cornell had already snagged first place with a perfect 8-0 league record—but it did provide the Crimson with the opportunity to capture second place and defeat Princeton in its own pool. Harvard has not won at Princeton’s DeNunzio Pool since 1983, and could not break the streak this year...
...wrote this in 1965. Since then, the comic-book collectibles market has exploded. In 2005, according to the Wall Street Journal, "A near-perfect 'Action Comics' No. 1, the book that launched Superman, lists for $485,000, up from $200,000 five years ago." That's nearly a 5 million percent markup from the 1938 street price of 10 cents. In 2002 Nicolas Cage, who had taken his stage name from Luke Cage, the first black comic-book super hero, got $1.68 million for his comics collection, which included an issue that introduced Batman's sidekick Robin and another that...
...coffee table (whose service it would nearly cover), less you spill some frappuccino on it. But buy and treasure it - and hope that, unlike my copy, yours doesn't have one 16-page section printed twice. Oh well, it's close to perfect...
...fourth, respectively. The Crimson is 0-3-1 on the season against those two units. Including a December draw with No. 5 New Hampshire, Harvard totes a discouraging 0-3-2 record against the current top five. Versus the rest of the country, the Crimson is a nearly perfect 15-1-0, a loss at UConn the only blemish.“I’m not [concerned],” Stone said of the apparent trend. “We’ll have a opportunity to play some of those teams again and hopefully things will...