Word: splendid
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Grand Boulevard is a slum, and maybe a worse slum for having had a splendid past. In little more than a century, it has known both wealth and glory, as home to the gentry of two distinctly separate societies...
...broken up into grimy cubicles--characterized by bow fronts, Greek columns, turreted towers, bay windows with pilasters, and beveled-glass fanlights. "The potential is so wonderful," a social worker remarks, driving down the boulevard, now called Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. She is talking about the architecture. The splendid ostentation of these buildings makes their present inhabitants look somehow unfeathered...
...called State "a physical, smash-mouth type of ball club" that "splatters you." The wishbone running of Freshman Quarterback Jamelle Holieway was well splattered, but then Holieway blithely dropped back and threw a 71-yd. touchdown pass to a wonderful tight end named Keith Jackson. Oklahoma's most splendid players are on the defense: Nose Guard Tony Casillas, Linebacker Brian Bosworth and Safety Sonny Brown. Penn State could not match them, and in fact had to do heroic work just to keep the Sooners kicking field goals. Resolutely, Oklahoma ground out an unlovely victory, 25-10. The Nittany Lions...
...splendid job within the resource constraints he had to work with,” Kuhn writes in an e-mail. “He was a tireless advocate for the Graduate School, handling a tough job honestly and loyally...
...successful in our recruitment efforts, Harvard will have an African studies department as splendid and as renowned as our department of African American studies,” he says...