Word: thrive
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Webb makes no apologies for its narrow specialization or rigor. Undergraduates seem to thrive on the combination. A spartan student government has banned beards, liquor on campus, and visits by girls to dorms. Student courts can penalize a student for coming late to class or expel him for cheating on the honor system. "Most of us realize what a tremendous gift this is," says Senior Karl L. Kirkman of Catonsville, Md. "We would hate to have it spoiled for the next...
...Moursund. Acquired in 1961 and 1962, they are the 2,186-acre Three Springs Ranch along the Pedernales in Blanco County and the 4,500-acre Haywood Ranch in the lake region of nearby Llano County. They consist chiefly of pastureland on which cattle, sheep and Angora goats thrive. Moursund explains his interest in such land acquisition with typical understatement. Says he: "The more little places you have, the better...
Even more important are the City's banks, which thrive where various forms of banking operations have been conducted since the Middle Ages. Behind forbidding stone walls broods "the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street"-the Bank of England-which controls the currency that finances 40% of all international trade. Clustered near by, interspersed with some 30 churches built by Christopher Wren, are 150 banking houses with such famous names as Barclays, Midland and Lloyds. British banks have for generations made the whole world their oyster, have extensive and direct knowledge of business conditions and customers overseas. Altogether, they have...
Writing in the New York Times Magazine, David Boroff, an associate professor of English, said that Harvard nevertheless qualified as a university where such intellectuals "flourish." "Scholar-gypsies who follow not the curriculum but their own intellectual bent" also thrive at Columbia, Berkeley, Wisconsin, and N.Y.U., Boroff reported...
Allen is a consistent performer who like teammate Hewlett, seems to thrive on long distances. He does not possess a notable finishing kick, but manages to place himself near the front of the pack early in the race...