Word: plethora
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Despite these travails, Harvard is expected to put in a strong showing at the Syracuse Invitational in upstate New York this weekend. This year the number of teams participating has been winnowed down to 13 (from the traditional 16) because of a plethora of injuries to three squads...
Consider the irony, then, that the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, which is notorious for its plethora of pinstripe-clad Heroes of the Working Class, served Coors products at its meeting for Senior concentrators. It's not so easy being p.c. after...
...wave his hands about as he played? Who could resist the story of the monkish prodigy who burst onto the scene at 23 only to abandon concerts for good eight years later? When Gould died at 50 in 1982, he left behind a mess of unanswered letters and a plethora of unanswered questions. Now, for the first time, the whole jumble has been largely straightened out in an admirably lucid and level-headed biography by Otto Friedrich, author of such previous books as Before the Deluge and City of Nets and a TIME senior writer. In Glenn Gould: A Life...
Invisible behind the plethora of pages in the OED2 are hidden commands heralding an advance that will revolutionize the way it -- and perhaps all reference books -- is used in the future. Amazingly, this entire venture was conceived and completed within a span of seven years. A. Walton Litz, a professor of English at Princeton and a member of the Oxford University Press advisory council, says, "I've never been associated with a project, I've never even heard of a project, that was so incredibly complicated and that met every deadline." Some of this speed and success can be attributed...
Numerologists might be intrigued to learn that this novel completes a trilogy, that this trilogy is the third that Canadian author Robertson Davies has written, and that a painted triptych figures prominently and mysteriously in the narrative. What this plethora of threes may signify is anyone's guess, but those more interested in words than in integers will face a calculated problem. Specifically, is it possible to understand and enjoy The Lyre of Orpheus without having read The Rebel Angels (1981) and What's Bred in the Bone (1985), the books that lead...