Word: rub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lydia Rios and Walter Clair '77, both fourth-year students, said a lack of role models on the faculty is another important reason students might be deterred from seeking faculty careers. "Role models rub off on you. A minority student sees the things a white role model is doing and says, "I want to teach,' but, as a minority, he may be discouraged from this," Clair says. He adds, however, that despite the obstacles a minority student faces in deciding to pursue an academic career, the problem does not lie only in getting students to do this. Clair does...
...goals led the squad last year. Olson picked up the team's only hat trick in the 6-6 tie against Yale, and scored twice in a game three other times. Small, but fast, tought and willing to dig, Cleary says, "Hopefully his scoring touch will rub off on others...
Similarly, Elkin squeezes out comedy from lost causes, the tickling sensation that comes when backs rub against the wall. An old peddler named Isidore Feldman fetches up in Illinois. He tells his new neighbors that he is "in the last phase of the Diaspora. I have come to the end of the trail in your cornfields." And he gives his son some good advice: "Travel light. Because there will come catastrophe. Every night expect the flood, the earthquake, the fire, and think of the stock...
...only the consistency would rub off. "I still have complete hope and confidence that my team can beat Princeton, Bridgewater and Yale," MacAusland commented, and it's obvious by the way the stickwomen have played that they...
...Arabian Gulf, depending on the side of the water on which one stands. On either shore, the Arabian and Iranian plateaus form some of the most uninviting landscape anywhere: endless vistas of desert and rock, so desolate that in one stretch in Saudi Arabia it is known as Rub'al Khali-the Empty Quarter...