Word: field
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...make matters worse for the department, it finds itself with less-than-cooperative partners when trying to make tenure appointments. Traditionally, most Afro-Am appointments are made in conjunction with either the History or English department, because most scholars want ties with a traditional academic field...
Yale's main strength is its defense, which has allowed opponents to score only 60 points per game and shoot under 40 percent from the field. The Elis are second in the league defensively behind Princeton and have four players--Campbell and front-line starters Casey Cammann, Travis McCready and Stu Davies--who are averaging more than five rebounds per game...
...rebounds in Brown's 62-60 upset over Yale last Saturday. His 12 points on 6-for-7 shooting and 10 rebounds staked the Bruins to a 33-27 halftime lead in that game. The freshman center leads the league in rebounding and is shooting 58 percent from the field this season...
...area of astronomy I think in the country that has been shortchanged," said Paul Vanden Bout, director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va. "It really hasn't gotten its due and I think the time has come before our friends abroad run away with the field...
...lazy Sambos with watermelons, fiddling clowns, butts of practical jokes. But not all the time. "Sambo is not my man and brother," snorted William Makepeace Thackeray during his lecture tour of America in 1852-53. Yet when his secretary, Eyre Crowe, painted a group of black women and a field hand waiting to be auctioned in Virginia, the image was all sympathy and respect, without a trace of his employer's bigotry...