Word: certain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Take the example of Adams House," he added, "I'm pretty sure we have the highest concentration of social science [concentrators]. But we have a high concentration of science [concentrators]. All houses are diverse to a certain degree. Why is it such a problem...
...state claims that Cambridge violated a regulation requiring community water systems to notify the public if the level of a contaminant known as trihalomethanes (THMs) in drinking water exceeds a certain level...
...Each president has his own specific reasons," Orleans said yesterday. "But I think one explicit reason was the difficulty that the game would conflict with the exam schedules of certain schools...
...innocence removed, we can now understand precisely what is implied in his associate professorship and the "certainlicense" of his 40th year. There is, to my mind, something inherently parental--or, anagramatically, paternal--about both the stature granted by his academic position and the stature concomitant with his age. His "certain license" is more a "certain censure" should we not take up his passionate lance. Nor would Professor Blumenthal want it any other...
Perhaps the most emotional debates are those now occurring within the Roman Catholic Church. Father Andrew Greeley, the irrepressible sociologist and novelist, complained in a recent article that regard for priestly celibacy is being undermined by a "national network" of actively homosexual clergy. "In some dioceses, certain rectories have become lavender houses," he grumbled. Theologian Richard McBrien of the University of Notre Dame contends that homosexuality is so widespread that "heterosexual males are deciding in ever increasing numbers not even to consider the priesthood...