Word: roughnesses
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...otherwise a rough weekend for Carey, who was a Second Team All-Ivy selection last year and batted .374 but was just 4-for-17 on the weekend. He is currently hitting...
...problems of philosophy: "We have got on to slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk. We want to walk: so we need friction. Back to the rough ground!" Where before he had favored explicit logical rules, now he spoke of language games, governed by tacit mutual understanding, and he proposed to replace the sharp boundaries of set theory with what he called family resemblances. "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language...
...course, the Gophers' average margin of victory of 4.73 goals leaves ample room for bench contributions. This and all of Minnesota's accomplishments are qualified by its schedule, as geographic isolation has sheltered the Gophers from the rough-and-tumble ECAC...
...Gophers have scored at least 10 goals, and eight have at least 30 points. Three of Minnesota's blueliners have 15 assists. But Minnesota's record is qualified by its schedule, as geographic isolation has sheltered the Gophers from the rough-and-tumble ECAC...
...book is one that transcends those interests. I found myself reading passages again because they were so full of a simple, quiet strength of character and intensity of spirit which allows the narrator-heroine to endure the trials that occasionally strike the reader dumb with incredulity. Despite a few rough edges, the book manages to involve readers deeply in the emotional current of the story. While the novel falls down occasionally in the use of an inner-city dialect which author Connie Porter has trouble translating into text, the skilled use of deliberately, nakedly inelegant language and expressive imagery fills...