Word: pond
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...sign of winter in New York City is the opening of the Rockefeller Center ice rink - this year on Oct. 11. Other ice-skating rinks around Manhattan will open in October as well: In Central Park, Wollman Rink opens on Oct. 19 and Lasker Rink on Oct. 20. The Pond at Bryant Park opens...
...more big time players start jumping across the pond for briefcases full of Euros, the NBA will lose the foundation of its business: talented players. While this movement has not taken off yet, it makes sense that if one league loses its best talent, the level of play will decrease. Tom Brady, star quarterback of the Patriots football team, offers an object lesson for these issues. Brady completely changed the scope of the 2008 NFL season when he tore a muscle in his left knee during the first game of the year against the Kansas City Chiefs. While many Patriots...
...story, "Harvard Chess Club Ties Beijing Team," misstated the name of a chess maneuver. It is "Poison Pawn" not "Poison Pond...
Making use of maneuvers like the Sicilian and the Poison Pond, five Harvard undergraduates took on a team from the University of Beijing in the one game of intellect that has transcended national borders for decades. But in the end, the chess match—held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday—ended in a disappointing 5-5 tie. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...their database of English-language books, newspapers, broadcasts and other media. If, by February 2009, a word reappears in that database with at least six "high quality" citations, it could be spared from the semantic dustbin. "We're looking to see if dropping a little stone in the pond of language actually does generate ripples," says Brookes...