Word: plows
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...successful politician, the president of the Montana state senate. But in April, in the midst of a hot primary race, Tester took five days off from the campaign to seed his 1,800-acre farm in the eastern Montana flatlands. "Look, I do the things real people do. I plow, I seed, I harvest. I do some of my best thinking on my tractor," Tester told me as he campaigned in Whitefish, Mont., last week...
Harvard Summer School also expanded its study-abroad programs, facilitating students paths’ to a summer outside the U.S. Just five years ago, Harvard offered only two such programs, forcing students to hunt through third-party offerings and plow through piles of paperwork and petitions. But despite the recent expansion in programs, Harvard has allocated limited financial aid for the students enrolled in them. And last April, the shortage of international study grants for Harvard’s students came to light as an increase in applications (eased by a new common grant application) meant that many students...
...Twenty-five years into their wildly successful careers, Jean and Reiss continue to plow ahead with new projects...
George W. Bush is worth more than Brad Pitt. Well, at least on Trendio com a site where you can speculate on the news. Investors start with $10,000 in play money, which they can plow into some 200 terms, like Michael Jackson, gunman and Dick Cheney. Trading prices of the terms fluctuate according to how often they appear in stories from 3,000 media sources--so the value of Brad Pitt spiked on news of his daughter's birth. But if you can't make real money, what's the point? "Media consumers don't give much thought...
...encountered King Lear at 2:30 in the morning, he knows that something is very wrong. “The text doesn’t speak to them,” he laments. And I, for one, agree. Harvard students, especially humanities concentrators, face monstrous reading loads. Expected to plow through 350 pages each week, students in the most demanding courses are faced with two alternatives—and neither, let me warn you, is pretty. The first option is superficial reading, a half-hearted skim that introduced our poor friend to the beauties of Shakespeare. Passive reading allows students...