Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after holding the lead for approximately 36 of 38 minutes gone by, the Crimson couldn't get the Big Green to roll over and play dead that easily. But every time Dartmouth would appear to be spinning out of the grave, Harvard--with flawless foul shooting or smart play--would send them back...
Although these men would be better served if they came to recognize a smart woman as something other than a threat to their manhood, an 18-year-old instinct will not be educated away with a Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) visit to a proctor meeting. (Repeat after me: "I am a man, and it's okay that some women are smarter than I.") It's a shame that, in the name of social engineering, four years of these students' educational lives are severely disrupted...
...Smart is not just something you are," said Howard. "Smart is something...
...smart move. The news media were quick to note the orphanage proposal's obvious incompatibility with "family values." Hillary Clinton told a New York audience last week that the "idea of putting children into orphanages because their mothers couldn't find jobs" was "unbelievable and absurd." Eager to be seen as the way of the future, the Newtonians found themselves tarred with images of the distant, Dickensian past...
Some students win high marks through brilliance. Others grind out good grades. Rudenstine is very smart, but at root he is a grind. That way of working has made him, by most accounts, a very successful manager of low-profile issues like the University deficit...