Word: spend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pounds of fertilizer, small mountains of earth, gallons upon gallons of water and absurd quantities of labor are channelled into Yard lawncare throughout the semester. But to what end? Why does Harvard choose to spend unknown sums of money compromising aesthetics and limiting student A-to-B point options? Seemingly, they do so to create a billion-bladed carpet of velvety green stretching from Widener to Memorial Church and away on all sides, realized just in time to be crushed irreparably by the thousands of bodies standing, sitting or milling excitedly about on it during the Class Day ceremonies...
...subdued, and the soft cadence of the presentation was broken by the occasional question or the rustle of a communal page-flip as everyone looked at the illustrations of proper vs. improper posture on the back of the info sheet. It was not how most people would choose to spend an evening if they didn t have...
...More so than anything else I read at a young age, Tintin kindled my fascination with writing, foreign affairs and travel. The eponymous hero of Herge's series is a young newspaper journalist who travels about the world solving one scandalous affair after another (and manages to spend surprisingly zero time at the office). Opium smuggling in the Orient, counterfeiting schemes in Scotland and underwater treasuring hunting pose no problem for the resourceful Tintin. With the aid of Captain Haddock and pet dog Snowy, Tintin makes short work of the thugs and brings the ringleaders to justice...
...Unlike a department, our Board of Tutors is scattered all about the campus and beyond," McCarthy says. "Students have to spend more time and cover more miles to consult with their advisers. On the other hand, there is no other concentration where an undergraduate student is assured access to such a broad cross section of faculty in many schools beyond...
Kelling's recommendations include that Rileyhire a staff assistant and "that he spend moretime `on the ground' with officers...