Word: spreading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...point out that injuries are only, well, the breaks of the game. Gusto bring, glory; if you don't have grit, get out. And no studies such have shown that House athletic injuries outstrip those in varsity athletics. Many of the injuries that do occur specifically the wide-spread concussions of House football, have cropped up before on other fields of battle specifically in high school football (In a sense intramurals are more fertilizer to hurt than they are spawning ground...
Although he said he could not recall any tenured faculty members in applied sciences who had left the University to go into industry. Thomas E. Cheatham, McKay Professor of Computer Science, said that there is wide-spread concern at major universities that the most promising computer scholars are avoiding graduate school. There is further worry that those who do obtain advanced degrees are almost all going into industry rather than academia, he added...
...country where the unbridled pursuit of self-interest has led to the spread of what Michael Walzer recently termed "the ideology of selfishness," the moderating force of apology appears as salient as ever. When those who govern or administer use apologias for the opposite reason--for the defense of self-interest or the defense of illegitimacy--they undermine morality...
CARP has organizations on 90 to 100 campuses nationwide, including Boston University, Columbia, and Cornell. The student group has attempted to spread the dictum of the church which calls for the "bridging of the gap between faith and reason" through self-awareness...
...wealthy young man who is really "a creature covered with scales, with an eye in his chest, and on his forehead a horn that rotated at great speed." Supernatural beings stalk the cities as well. In The Power of Darkness, a Warsaw district receives strange tidings: "The word soon spread . . . that a dybbuk had settled in Tzeitel's ear, and that it chanted the Torah, sermonized, and crowed like a rooster." The narrator of The Cafeteria meets a woman who claims to have seen Adolf Hitler on upper Broadway. Her confidant is ultimately inclined to believe her: "Esther didn...