Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Although he wrestled in half the varsity matches as a Yardling, Oberg, a three time Connecticut State High School wrestling champion, decided to devote himself to rugby. "It offers a different outlook on sport," he said. "Rugby's casual, without any pressure from a coach or alumni. The social aspect...
I was co-chair of S.O.S.; however, I resigned in order to have more time for my thesis. As I reconsider security issues from this new vantage point. I grow firmer in a conviction which I have held for some time: namely, we as students should devote more thought to...
Dr. Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Medicine and recently named Ridley Watts Professor of Preventive Medicine, said yesterday he notified University and hospital official of this decision in April, 1979. He said he decided to leave the chairmanship, which he assumed in 1966, because he wanted to devote more time...
It was a different Carter who mounted the dais at Anthony's, different from the folksy campaigner who found so much in common in his own pastoral Southern roots and those of the Italians of the North End. When the new Carter mused autobiographically, he omitted stories about his years...
In many ways he has been a towering figure in the publishing business. No one could claim to know it better, to have contributed more to it, or, at 6 ft. 5½ in., to have dominated it so literally. We view Andrew Heiskell's leaving with mixed emotions...