Word: valiant
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...don’t see a groundswell of professors signing up to advise students,” Gross says, adding that while Nathans has made “a valiant effort” to recruit these professors, only a small number agree to take on advising roles...
...Playing in his first dual meet, Valkin manned the sixth slot and offered a valiant effort before falling...
...football and baseball with a fair degree of success in Remember the Titans and The Rookie, Disney moves down its list to hockey, in particular the U.S. Olympic hockey team’s triumphant victory over the world champion Soviet team in the 1980 Games. But Miracle makes a valiant attempt to transcend the trappings of its saccharine genre, and largely succeeds with the prescient casting of Kurt Russell as team coach Herb Brooks. Russell, whose dusty film resume has been given a sudden shock, walks, talks and grunts the part of the bull-headed Brooks with confidence...
...ones who are willing to make the journey from MIT are highly motivated,” says Leslie G. Valiant, who taught Computer Science 228, “Computational Learning Theory,” which had three MIT students in a class of around 20 last year...
...ceremonial on-ice hand-shaking after the game, each Crimson skater acknowledged Love’s effort—an effort that, however valiant, fell seven seconds short...