Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comparison, only four present Harvard skaters have over 100 points--in their careers. Senior Lane MacDonald leads the current squad in career points (164) and points this season (66). MacDonald and Hrkac are finalists for the Hobey Baker Award, which honors college hockey's most valuable player...
...present another case where hopefully is hopelessly wrong: "Hopefully, my money will arrive before Sunday." In this case, hopefully again modifies a verb, "to arrive" but the action refers to the inanimate object "money." Money cannot be hopeful, nor can it arrive hopefully. Most of all, it cannot arrive before Sunday hopefully...
...scathing letter explaining the meanings of these words. Those of you who read the letter may have found the definitions even more confusing than the terms themselves. Me too. Anxious to receive more hate mail, and perhaps some more lucid definitions of the terms that confuse me, I present some more terms whose meaning I am unable to comprehend...
...seen and described by an Egyptian scribe named Ali ibn Ridwan and by European monks. The exploding star of 1181 was noted by the Japanese. But it is the supernova of July 4, 1054, which suddenly blazed in the constellation Taurus, near Orion, that is perhaps most significant to present-day astronomers. It exploded only about 6,000 light-years away and left behind the slowly writhing, gradually expanding and delicately beautiful cloud of glowing gas known as the Crab nebula. Studies of the structure and dynamics of the Crab have provided modern astronomers with important insights into supernova explosions...
Critics say Monsanto appears determined to make it prohibitively expensive and time consuming for plaintiffs, both present and future, to sue. It has moved for mistrial 31 times so far, and sought dismissal of the case for "impermissible forum shopping" in moving it from Missouri to Illinois...