Word: spans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge. In the past, the form provided for interviewers to fill out about each candidate has suggested that interviewers should only relay their general impressions about a candidate and not try to glean too much from a 45- to 60-minute conversation. "We understand that in the short span of the interview time, it is impossible to know with much certainty very much about a student..." the form explains...
...half the lifetimes of current Harvard water polo team members, the team has been losing to Brown. In that span Harvard has joined the select elite of non-California teams to develop proficiency in this grueling sport. Yet, the Crimson's nemesis eludes...
...senior at Atlantic City High School. In the four-mile odyssey, the boat passed two other crews, then "two of them crashed in front of me into bridges," then a boat just ahead moved so the Atlantic City boat could pass, then careened into yet another span...
...Americans opt not to help choose the leaders who will tax them, spend their money and draft their laws. Perhaps the checklist embraced by the symposium would boost participation by as much as 9 percent, as claimed. But the voters gained would be those with the incredibly short attention span, the citizens only marginally weakened from their coma of apathy...
...finds kind words even for some of Eisenhower's more forgettable episodes, like his postwar presidency of Columbia University: though often criticized for his reclusiveness, lack of sophistication and reluctance to stand up for academic freedom, Eisenhower launched more new programs in a 2½-year span than most of his predecessors. Some of his highest, and lowest, moments came in the 1952 presidential race, which he entered with feigned reluctance. The candidate did not have the nerve to repudiate Wisconsin's red-baiting Joseph McCarthy-even after he smeared General Marshall, Ike's patron-but otherwise...