Word: trove
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After all, the big races for the Crimson are the Eastern Sprints, The Race (against Yale in June) and the Nationals in Cincinnati. The Adams Cup is just another addition to Harvard's treasure trove on the road to the national championship...
...Jumel mansion, once the home of Aaron Burr, and Hamilton Grange, the last abode of Alexander Hamilton. Near the Grange on still posh Sugar Hill is a quiet riot of Tudor and Romanesque residences that shelter the faculty of City University. Around the corner is Harlem's favorite archival trove, Aunt Len's Doll and Toy Museum, where Lenon Holder Hoyte, 83, will show off her collection of more than 5,000 dolls...
...century in which Scott was one of the most popular authors writing in English. Now that the text has become electronic and easier to revise, future OEDs may lose this 19th century bias. Not too soon, though, it is to be hoped. These handsome new books, containing a trove of information ! waiting to be mined, stand solidly between the past and future. They are an inexhaustible record of what we have written and said and the foundation for what we may yet come to invent...
...scowl and a simpering grin. Jason Alexander, who serves as narrator and plays seven characters, has wit, charm and the requisite razzmatazz -- his parts in Forum and Fiddler were played by Zero Mostel -- but lacks the star attribute of effortless ease. Yet if Robbins has not unearthed the treasure trove that many hoped for, he still offers a richly illuminated manuscript from the book of Broadway's beloved past...
...always with Gurney, an outward simplicity conceals a puzzle hunter's trove of puns, metaphors and hidden allusions. In the opening scene, the father misquotes a literary reference and the son, in gentle correction, claims that Coleridge said the three great plots were Oedipus Rex, Tom Jones and Volpone. Sure enough, the play turns out to be, like Oedipus, a struggle between father and son; the play within a play hinges, like Tom Jones, on questions of hidden parenthood; and the father, like Volpone, proclaims his forthcoming death to see what favors can be extracted in the hope of inheritance...