Word: professor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Invisible behind the plethora of pages in the OED2 are hidden commands heralding an advance that will revolutionize the way it -- and perhaps all reference books -- is used in the future. Amazingly, this entire venture was conceived and completed within a span of seven years. A. Walton Litz, a professor of English at Princeton and a member of the Oxford University Press advisory council, says, "I've never been associated with a project, I've never even heard of a project, that was so incredibly complicated and that met every deadline." Some of this speed and success can be attributed...
...girl, college students, are seated in the campus hangout, holding hands, deep in conversation. The girl confides that she will spend the weekend with her biology professor; it is, alas, the price she must pay for a passing grade in biology. Same old soap opera, same old dilemma, and as with all such troubles, matters will eventually straighten out and soon worse crises will occur...
...American business of image consulting for ordinary people. It struck Henderson that all the signals about class, education and authority conveyed by speech in England were matters of image and dress in the U.S., and that her fashion training qualified her to set up shop as a newfangled Professor Higgins. Since then, she says, "I've taken more people out of beige than they've had hot meals...
...since 1978. The Davis case is the first battle for possession of the eggs. Legal experts have been warning that couples who enter fertility programs should draw up agreements dictating the fate of such eggs should there be a death or divorce. Says Ellen Wright Clayton, assistant professor of law and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University: "Fertilized eggs are going to give rise to a whole new set of legal issues...
...celebration party for newly-tenured Law School professors Randall Kennedy and Kathleen M. Sullivan, a professor offered a Crimson reporter a glass of champagne. When the professor learned that he was talking to a reporter he put the bottle down quickly...