Word: wont
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Exhibitions of Harvard-Yale chauvinism often walk the razor's edge between good-natured boasts of superiority and spiteful self-gratification. Yalies are wont to espouse the stereotype of the condescending Harvard pseudo-intellectual, as in the following excerpt from a Yale student's report of the first Harvard-Yale game: "If we were to paint the typical Harvard student, we should draw him as a gentlemanly fellow with a thin veneering of respectibility, and an amazing amount of superficial knowledge, who, angry at a man would think, 'he's a low fellah, you know,' ... and who, immediately after death...
...drop their thesis (about 14 this year in Reyes's Government Department, for example), but that doesn't take into account the seniors who want very much to drop their thesis but don't. The discontent of thesis-writing seniors is apparent to friends, of course--thesis writers are wont to stumble bleary-eyed into a dining hall and gripe about their work--but often invisible to official Harvard. Seniors probably do not often complain to counselors and advisers when they have problems with their these or problems with courses because of too much thesis work. For example, William...
Brynner). Benjamin also gets to gun down Brynner on a couple of occasions, since Brynner, like all the residents of Westworld, is a robot. The automatons weary of the monotony and indignity of their life and rebel or, more properly, run amuck, as they are wont...
Marjorie Merriweather Post lived as queens once were wont to do and now seldom can afford. As heiress to a breakfast-cereal fortune and founder of the General Foods empire, Mrs.Post reigned for most of her years as the grande dame of American high society and regal mistress of a life-style evocative of the lost opulence of Victorian empires. Last week, at her Georgian estate in Washington, D.C., Marjorie Post died quietly of a heart attack at age 86, and with her death a gilt-edged volume of American history came...
...Santa Fe city council turned the problem over to the state. Its solution: an explanatory plaque, to be placed alongside the offending monument, that will read in part: "Monument texts are wont to reflect the character of the time in which they are written and the temper of those who wrote them. Hopefully, attitudes change and prejudices dissolve...