Word: underlying
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"The whole niche of the red squirrel is to bury the closed cones for later," says Warshall. "The cold microclimate under the tree canopy insures the seed cones remain closed. If the temperature under the tree heats up, the cones open, and other animals can get the seeds."
Traditionally, confidentiality in hiring works the other way. Names of those in the first rounds of consideration are often kept under wraps so that word of a candidate's quest for the job won't get his or her present employer worried. Once the pool has been screened once or...
If any of the above are perpetrated under the influence of (illegally obtained) alcohol, you may have beer goggled. (Drinking habits, by the way, open up a whole new chapter in the study of Harvard slang, including at least 50 words for the act of imbibing and the condition of...
When residents of the Real World go strolling through the Yard, wondering in awe of the brilliant students they see sitting on the steps of Widener (students who are probably blowing off work and bagging classes), they must be perplexed by the unfamiliar vocabulary they over-hear. The tourists are...
--Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson '44 on the professor who will fill a chair at the Med School endowed by Saudi Arabian Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud. Turki has been esconced in the Charles Hotel since July under the protection of Harvard and Cambridge police and, according...