Word: spottedness
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I was saddened and angered to see that a scholar of Alan Brinkley's standing was denied tenure at Harvard. Harvard still is Harvard, isn't it? I'm sure Professor Brinkley's mistake was being spotted in the company of admitted undergraduates.
The Tisch operation is remarkably fat-free. Loews' Manhattan headquarters houses only 60 employees, less than .3% of the conglomerate's total work force. That spare staffing may enable Loews to move quickly when a good business opportunity is spotted. The chain of command is short, and word reaches the...
Federal investigators discovered that the Piper's path toward the airliner had been visible on the TRACON screen "for several minutes," as one described it. The planes had collided at 6,500 ft., just 500 ft. above the floor of the protected space. The left wing of the Piper clipped...
This season's most promising performer is a spotted tan gilt named Huckleberry Hog, who has a good shot at breaking the record: 4.48 sec. on the flat, held by a gilt named American Made. But even if she sizzles to a new speed record and is enshrined in Heinold...
Last summer Walker, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University medical school, was looking for baboon fossils, when he spotted the skull fragment. By studying volcanic ash and other bones nearby, his colleagues determined the skull's age. Its pedigree was trickier. It has the structure of a late australopithecine...