Word: mereness
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...best of all possible worlds, contrary to any notions Leibniz or Voltaire might have had, was post-Civil War New Orleans. Not a mere metropolis, New Orleans was an emerging economic powerhouse ridden with racial tension, an elegant locus of brilliance of all sorts, and very nearly, if Christopher Benfey is to be believed, a living, breathing entity. The great painter Edgar Degas sojourned in this charmed city for several months in 1872 and 1873, and an enamored Benfey seized the coincidence as an opportunity to write a diffuse paean to the Crescent City and her denizens, and incidentally...
...killed a bigger bank. Investors in the U.S. aren't strangers to the perversity of free markets. How many times have you seen a company so down that it says it must shed thousands of jobs, and the stock zooms? So ingrained is this convoluted logic that the mere appointment of a CEO known for tough love can send a stock flying. Sunbeam surged 49% on the day cost-cutting Al ("Chainsaw") Dunlap became CEO. Japan should name him Minister of Finance; the rally would dazzle...
Things changed once I got out of the Inside, however. I found College life isn't particularly friendly to the compulsively clean. Friends and mere acquaintances feel at liberty to fling their polluted bodies onto the pristine haven of my bed without regard for my well-being. Shoes track dirt into the dorm room and there is no reining them in. I find myself sharing cups and utensils with people I have known only for a span of months. Three years of this nerve-wracking activity and I am hanging on by a neatly-trimmed fingernail. What...
...opposition, in contrast, was held to a mere 247 total yards, its presence on the board the result of three field goals...
...most promising moment for the Crimson (1-4-1, 1-2-1 ECAC) came a mere 2:16 into the contest when it took a 1-0 lead. Stunning the large Terrier contingency on hand was freshman Harry Schwefel who whipped a shot from right in front of the net off the tip of his stick past B.U. goaltender Michel Larocque...