Word: spend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advantages of the new Radcliffe Institute--including a starting endowment just $60 million less than that of the Princeton institute and official ties to Harvard's vast resources and renowned faculty--may send the New Jersey school's prospective scholars scurrying to spend sabbaticals in Cambridge instead...
...that that makes any difference one way or another," she said. "It presumes that people who have a year of leave want to spend a year talking to a lot of people, which they don't necessarily...
...been interesting over the years. First grade: People attribute my success with the alphabet to "lots of practice." Second grade: My teacher expresses concern. People wonder if I get less time on tests because I spend so long writing my name. I assure them that my academics have not suffered as a result of my surname. I do, however, learn that if I want my name to fit in the upper right hand corner of a piece of notebook paper, I should start in the middle of the page, not four-fifths over to the right, where everyone else does...
...extra. When I am a sophomore, one of my friends is the editor of the school paper. When stories are a few lines short, she gets her reporters to call me for a quote so they can use my name to take up space. Before graduation, I have to spend extra time with the student announcing my name so she can get it right. I catch her in the bathroom before the ceremony, practicing the fourth and fifth syllables furiously...
...said he will spend this summer traveling throughout England before focusing on Chester, which he called "the most well-preserved medieval village in England...