Word: wording
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ghost-written speeches are equally easy to spot. The word "paradigm" looks impressive in the transcript of a speech, but sounded pretty silly when Reagan pronounced it "paradijem...
That's the only word that can possibly describe Saturday's women's volleyball thriller between Harvard and Princeton at the Malkin Athletic Center...
...Tigers roared back to life in the fourth set, quickly piling up a 9-3 lead. But Harvard would not give up and teamed together in every sense of the word, slowly sealing the gap to tie the game...
...this problem licked is a fool or a knave or both." Microbiologist J. Michael Bishop was referring to the slow, almost imperceptible progress in the search for a cancer cure. So when Bishop, 53, and colleague Harold E. Varmus, 49, were awakened early last Monday with word that the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm had awarded them the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, both were startled. Bishop called the news "surreal" and Varmus insisted on verifying the information. Others were less surprised. Said Dr. David Baltimore of M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute, who won in 1975 the prize for research...
...misspelling the word "Tiananmen" in your headline and throughout your article, The Crimson adds an additional black mark to the record of what should be America's premier student daily. Joseph Kusnan '93 Harvard Students for a Democratic China