Word: shelfful
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...Holmes mysteries, whose life of late-Victorian virtue goes all squiffy when he accidentally acquires a passion for a woman not his wife. Doyle also acquires a late-life project in the form of George Edalji, a half-Indian lawyer who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned. Barnes, a top-shelf British novelist whose work doesn't always cross the Atlantic well, has created a slow-burning, enlargingly human tale of reasonable men whose expectations about the world are first deeply disappointed and then strangely redeemed...
...into the neutral zone and Harvard broke towards Saints goaltender Kevin Ackley. Crimson junior Ryan Maki skated the puck up the right and shipped it across the slot to Du, who passed it back over to Fraser. The rookie, just 10 seconds out of the sin bin, went top shelf over Ackley for the 3-1 lead...
...elapsed in the second period, Yale responded just over a minute later with an unassisted goal from senior Jeff Hristovski. Harvard senior goalie John Daigneau never saw the puck coming on the equalizer—the open shot whizzed past his right shoulder and beat him top shelf. Yet when the Crimson did get its chances, it was unable to make the most of them, missing multiple opportunities before scoring. “We got some good chances,” Murphy said. “We could’ve capitalized a few more times to put the game...
...lower is better) Cambridge: 75 New Haven: 96 Edge: Harvard; our lungs. City Property Crime Risk (lower is better) Cambridge: 102 New Haven: 255 Edge: Harvard; people stealing in New Haven; people who own things at Harvard. So, there we have it: conclusive, empirical proof that Harvard is top-shelf, while Yale is somewhere in the middle shelves, maybe even in the musty pantry in the basement. We have more books, more land, cleaner air, a block on the Supreme Court, and so many Nobel Prize winners, we don’t know what to do with ourselves. Surely...
There are two types of people in this world: eternal optimists and those measuring shelf space in the Brown athletic offices...