Word: stead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer training has stood her in good stead at this eastern university, which dwarfs Whitman. Linguistics is becoming a science in the traditional sense, relying on quantitative data to prove its contentions, according to Bergvall "You cannot do linguistics today without some computer background," she says, adding that her own training of four years ago is already becoming dated. The program she is using to analyze intonation could not have been created five years ago, she adds...
...there he was Saturday, forsaking the nomad's life to rob the Bulldogs on their few good chances. At the game's midway point, Eli right wing Sean Neely raced down the middle with the puck: Blair stayed put and Neely shot wide Five minutes later, he stead-fastly clung to the goal post to deny Yale's leading scorer. Bob Brooke, the near side shot And halfway through the final stanza, he made a sprawling save on winger George Minowada, a play both coaches talked about after the game...
...largest, and this is the area judicial bodies are usually loath to enter. Yet this commission claimed the territory. Where the report might easily have shrugged away the problem of blame, asserting that these matters of moral choice are so private no one can plumb them, it said in stead these are private areas of conscience that everyone both understands and experiences, and it is only common sense to acknowledge their existence and to mention what goes on there. The commissioners enhanced the concept of moral responsibility by applying reality to it, a shad part of reality certainly...
...always had. Brought up in London, Ont., where her father worked for the city parks system, she seems to have been bottle-fed selfesteem. "There were six children," she says. "But my mother always made me feel that I would do something important, which stood me in good stead." She cannot remember a time when she did not work hard, and when she was only 16, she entered the University of Toronto. That is where she discovered the theater...
Less than a minute later, the freshman from Aalsneer. Holland made an identical run in stead of shooting, he crossed to halfback Leo Lanzillo, rambling into the Big Red's penalty area Lanzillo rocked away a neat volley into the right of the Cornell twines for the tally...