Word: seigneurish
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...President Paul Gray of M.I.T., Harvard's great scientific rival and neighbor on the Charles, twits Harvard for its emphasis on esoteric research. "M.I.T.," Gray says, "is more at ease with the real world." To which Paul Martin, dean of Harvard's Division of Applied Sciences, replies with a seigneurish thrust: "The kind of research done here is not on the one-to-three-year payoff plan. We can't rely on places like M.I.T. to represent this part of civilization...
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