Word: shortness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baker felt strong throughout the long race and was able to pull through as the top Harvard runner. During the past two weeks, he had been doing short and fast workouts to help him improve his speed. He felt that his training at 4:40 mile intervals made the 4:50 mile pace much easier to run in the race...
...teen magazines which encourage rampant self-criticism. Harry is no slouch either--he studies all the time and does well in school, he never uses violence to get back at the bully and is friends with the principal. Finally, even scrawny little Harry is a star at sports. In short, Harry and his friends are every parent's dream kids...
Those books also detailed adventures in a magic world void of parents host to unearthly creatures, real and present danger, witches and wizards (good and bad), talking animals, intoxicating drinks and magical sweets, in short all the things which parents have objected to in Rowling's novels. Yet Lewis' books have gone down as one of the great children's series of all time, not to mention surreptitiously inculcating children of all ages with the tenets of the Christian faith...
Even in the short time Liang has been working with Dudley and Grandy, he has influenced change in the lyrics...
That Day is a student-written, student-directed play born from the vision of Nina Sawyer '01. She translated and adapted a short story about a little boy's experience in Nazi-occupied Germany--which constitutes the first part of the play--and wrote the second half herself. That Day tackles the experience of two parallel families, one in France and the other in Germany, who for some unclear reason are suffering from World...