Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Roosevelt's optimism about medical research seems, in retrospect, amazing. Doctors could not prevent or treat the poliovirus infection that had paralyzed him nearly twenty years earlier. John Franklin Enders and vaccines were still in the future; the main therapies were iron lungs and warm baths. Most of the staples of modern medicine were also still unknown. Antibiotics. Hormone replacements. Effective drug therapies for psychotic illnesses. Pre-natal testing. Coronary bypass surgery and artifical joints. Also in the future were medications that could have lowered FDR's blood pressure and perhaps forestalled the stroke that killed him less than five...
...Sometimes I would see a class and I would just be scared of it," he says. "I do regret that in retrospect...
...retrospect that I still thought I was 35 years old and could go three or four years without a vacation," Rudenstine says. "I've realized I'm no longer 35 years...
When one looks back at the entire season in retrospect, however, the one thing that looms the largest is a failure to capitalize. Too often Harvard was unable to come through in the clutch, and these missed opportunities always came against teams the Crimson could have defeated...
...decade seems ridiculous in retrospect, its absurdities left exposed after the smoke has cleared. In memory, the '70s seem wincingly stupid--that idiot disco music, those haircuts, those shirts and ties. Why pick...