Word: smartest
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Robyn started us off slowly. She got us a border collie, Hugo, when our son was about 6. She knew that would appeal to me because the border collie is the smartest species on the planet. Hugo could 1) play outfield in our backyard baseball games, 2) do flawless front-door sentry duty, and 3) play psychic weatherman, announcing with a wail every coming thunderstorm...
...remember before freshman year receiving numerous letters informing incoming students that they would no longer be the smartest or most gifted or best musician around. Be prepared, the letters said—you might feel mediocre. Despite these warnings, every year some freshmen have a hard time adjusting to “failure.” And thanks to grade inflation, many Harvard students still don’t know the feeling...
...Seventy-five percent of us were already tenured professors at Princeton. Sixty-five percent were the smartest in the world,” he said. “Three percent knew how to work a laundry machine...
Verba grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and attended James Madison High School. Senior year he decided to attend Harvard over Princeton, a choice he in retrospect calls “the smartest thing I ever...
DIED. DAVE DEBUSSCHERE, 62, Hall of Famer who starred on the New York Knicks' championship teams of the early 1970s; of a heart attack; in New York City. Known for his tenacious defense and rebounding, he joined the Knicks as the dependable power forward they needed to become the smartest, most unselfish team in basketball history...