Word: referents
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Move over, Martha. Get out of the way, Ralph. There’s a new girl in town (assuming that the term “girl” can refer to a 71 year-old girl-at-heart and “town” can refer to Palm Beach, Florida, one of the richest towns in the country), and her name is Lilly Pulitzer, creator of the brightly colored, Palm Beach clothing and lifestyle brand bearing her name. Lilly began her business in the late 60s, but today enjoys more buzz than ever as she whimsically prances barefoot into...
...that. Apple's "operating-system feeling" is a delicate way to refer to the firm's long decline in market share. Fewer than 3% of the world's computer users now have a Mac. The true significance of Jobs' music play was that it allowed the company to get away from the computer wars and find new markets...
...September, Dean had chosen him, too: the campaign was growing, and O’Mary got a call asking him to be the governor’s personal aide, what the press corps refer to as a “body...
...unlikely that Mr. Elihu Root will ever use or refer to his degree from the University of Bucnos Ayres, or from any one of the twenty-one other universities who have honored him with a degree. Nor does it seem likely that the University will lose much of its prestige or reputation through the accident which brings Gustavus Adolphus. Crown-Prince of Sweden, to Cambridge today instead of next Thursday. It is more a gesture than a service or a reward, it is a fitting part of the great American passion for gestures...
Thank you for publishing the excellent column “Girl Talk” by Phoebe Kosman ’05 on April 12. It directly addressed many of the word-choice issues that bug me when referring to a woman in daily conversation. One suggestion, that was not mentioned in the article, is to use “gal” to refer to females who are “not a girl, and not yet a woman”. It seems to be the appropriate analogue...