Word: swelling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hang around with. If I only knew how cool he was, they continued, I never would have called him out like that. And so I apologize to Mr. Kuhls. Your argument was idiotic. But some people think you’re really swell...
...having departed for Massachusetts, the Crimson was left to coach itself. Rather than finding itself adrift, however, the team seemed to come together. Recruitment, a major problem in previous years, achieved new heights, as a team that had once had trouble finding enough skiers to compete saw its roster swell to 16. As the new wave of younger players signed on, old and new members alike seemed to recommit themselves, supporting each other rather than relying on leadership at the top. “Because there isn’t a coach, it almost feels like it?...
...imagine this might be news to you, so I will share the facts. In the last 35 years, the proportion of kids who attend college has jumped 50%. Back in 1970, when the peak swell of Baby Boomers was 20 to 24 years old, there were 2.7 million of them attending college. That number pales to you guys. Over 6 million of you are in college right now. Among all countries of the world, America ranks No. 1 in sending kids to college...
...other, older activists. "Where are the young soldiers to step into the place that older missionaries now fill?" he asks the congregation. He steps down from the pulpit, and the organist begins playing the anthem associated more than any other with escape from bondage. In Korean, 2,000 voices swell to sing The Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...into effect for next year’s freshmen, giving departments a full year to restructure their tutorials before the Class of 2010 enters its sophomore year.The new policy presents departments with the challenge of leaving tutorials open to undecided sophomores without having the size of the fall tutorial swell to an unmanageable size.“We don’t want nobody to take [our fall tutorial], but we also don’t want anyone to take it,” Bryan M. Gaensler, head tutor for the Astronomy Department, said yesterday. His department, which currently offers...