Word: shelfful
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...performing cover stars were felled by injury - a common affliction in a brutally rough sport: According to a 2005 study, nearly 70% of football players suffer an injury each year. Those whose skills seemed to dwindle during their cover season may simply have peaked quickly in a sport whose shelf lives are disconcertingly brief...
...front of Holy Cross goaltender Jimmy Harrison, and slipped a shot past him down low. Harvard added two more goals in the first half, both from junior attacker Travis Burr. With 2:23 remaining in the opening period, Burr ran from behind the goal and finished top-shelf, and with 5:16 left in the second period, the junior received the ball on the left wing and fired a shot past Harrison. “Travis Burr has, through the last couple games, emerged as one of our leaders, especially on the offensive end, and it showed today...
...fossils have been deposited. (One obstacle is that only a few places on the earth - the Yucatan peninsula among them - have been seismically calm enough over the past several hundred thousand years to allow for such measurements.) But in the wake of the surprise breakaway of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica, which won't raise sea levels but will speed the melting of the remaining Antarctic ice, the Nature study is a grim warning of a potentially flooded future...
...betters’” (the authors of the great books of literature), or Arnold Weinstein’s laughably reductive “the bookshelf is as basic a resource for body and mind, especially the body and the mind in pain, as the medicine shelf.” You tear down those scarecrows with good reason; no one in their right mind would stand up to defend the arguments as you present them. But to write that pleasure is the only reason to read literature? That there is, ultimately, no social good to be derived from...
You’re dozing in a Government class when the professor calls on you. “How were the readings?” he asks, and you scramble for an answer. The course packet lies unopened on your shelf, so you recite CliffsNotes of previous lectures to fill time. Miffed, the professor scorns your apathy, but he should expect a lack of interest: Much of political science today is dull...