Word: stoning
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...This game was huge for us,” Salsgiver said. “It’s a boost, a stepping stone to this [Ivy] weekend [against Brown]. It was a big win, and we know with some pretty good opponents coming up this weekend we’re going to be ready...
Though there’s no doubt that internships with prestigious companies provide an excellent stepping-stone into the working community, presenting the student with some useful knowledge for after college, Harvard students overindulge in this game of one-upmanship. Competing for impressive summer positions, some spend much of their spring term flying between Boston and New York for interviews with prospective employers...
Framed by stone columns and archways, the scene in the indoor courtyard of the Fogg Art Museum last Thursday night is straight out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. A lush arrangement of flowers dominates a round table spread with delectable hors douvres, and black-tie attired patrons mingle on the fringes of the bouquet, sipping chardonnay and making small talk...
...Irving Libman, Sylvia Stone; Everett H. H. Stahl, Ruth Davis; Paul A. Levi, Vera Frankel...
With becoming modesty toward man-kind as a whole, it may be said that this is its usual process. Revolutions are energized by some actual need, their "general principles" being invoked as an incitement and justification. Like Touch stone, homo sapiens is never aware of his own wit till he breaks his shins against it. Yet the time may come when even college Presidents will no longer think is needful to camouflage a reversal of principle as a more change of emphasis. New York Times...