| 单词 | degree |
| 例句 | She was fresh out of college with a physiology degree when her adviser sent her for an interview. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was already about a million degrees outside. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z It’s almost a hundred degrees outside, and Charlise is dressed in a white button-down shirt and black pants as if she’s coming home from a job on Wall Street. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Under normal circumstances she left the kids alone, feeling that teens needed their space, that they were entitled to some degree of privacy. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And then, irresistibly and by degrees, I fell asleep. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I struggled on with the play and, by degrees, began understanding snippets of it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The longest points east by northeast or about 70 degrees. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “At what point did he realize the exact degree of your indifference?” he asks, dipping his cookie in his tea. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z After transferring to the University of Maryland, she earned her bachelor’s degree and entered a master’s program in psychology, becoming the first of Henrietta’s descendants to attend graduate school. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Then, to Gregor’s amazement, the needle turned forty-five degrees to the right and held steady. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Arts, and practiced as an attorney in Johannesburg for a number of years in partnership with Mr. Oliver Tambo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When their marshmallows were burned the right degree of delicious, Petey gave Finn two crackers and a piece of chocolate. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Bobby’s mother earned an online degree after her children got older and now works in accounting. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The Net Report says it has dropped to a low of fifty-four degrees. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z But for his father and others of a generation that could count on a comfortable life without a degree, the fall out of the middle class has come as a shock. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Whether we are aware of it or not, tradition is the framework within which we inevitably form our opinions of works of art and assess their degree of originality. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, for each degree up or down you go, you gain or lose a certain percentage of the volume. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Even with the sun getting low in the sky, it’s still ninety degrees, and the ice is already melting. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z All the Dukes were involved in the family business in varying degrees, but the real force behind the company was clearly the youngest son, James Buchanan Duke, known to intimates as “Buck.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He planned to complete work for an A.B. degree and then enter law school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Twist the chimney ninety degrees, slide off the roof panels one two three. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z My dad’s the one who stayed home with me when I was little so that my mom could get her teaching degree. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Thirty degrees, not even ten in the morning, and they shone like patent leather. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Accomplishing this degree of unity may mean giving up fierce defense of policies and strategies that exacerbate racial tensions and produce for racially defined groups primarily psychological or cosmetic racial benefits. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The varicolored cloud dust that the sun had stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “Our Olanna has just finished her master’s degree. Master’s degree at London University! It is not easy!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The air temperature sat at about twelve degrees, with a light breeze blowing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “This isn’t working. The eggs have been uncovered for sixty minutes, and at forty-five degrees Fahrenheit, that’s not good. I’m going to put them back.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Her grandmother says it’s eighty degrees there, and Fina pulls her sweater tighter around her, even though the oven is keeping the whole house toasty. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z In doing so, he left behind two children, a wife who had no college degree or work experience, and a mortgage. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z What the world demands of poor people they now carried out to an extreme degree. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z “Turn us twenty degrees starboard,” the captain whispers to me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He and Phil, Harry’s brother, arrived in Chicago at the beginning of February to find the city locked in brutal cold, the temperature eight degrees below zero. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I had promised Louis that I would work hard and get my Ph.D. degree. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Even when she was obtaining her master’s degree. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z We took it, that somewhere about the 47th degree, north latitude, would be the place chosen for the crossing the country between the river and the Carpathians. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z A degree in English language is not a prerequisite for caring about where a bracket is preferred to a dash, or a comma needs to be replaced by a semicolon. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z The train rolled through country where the temperature was fourteen degrees below zero. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew only that the darkness had lightened a few degrees when he was rejoined by Ron and Dean. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was always there, of course, to some degree. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z To an ever-increasing degree, chemicals used for the control of insects, rodents, or unwanted vegetation contribute to these organic pollutants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Although it is minus ten degrees centigrade and the wind is howling, it is nice to breathe freely. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “The Empire State Building is located at latitude 40 degrees, 44 minutes, 53.977 seconds north; longitude 73 degrees, 59 minutes, 10.812 seconds west. Thank you.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Okay,” said the quizmaster, “the first question is for Sunny Brook. And since this is the final round, the degree of difficulty has gone up.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z If anybody, of whatsoever degree, said a word that he didn’t approve of, he instantly required to have it “taken down.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z It’s about nine hundred degrees out, and my giant poofy brown gown is sticking to my arms like plastic wrap. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z That meant that the length of a degree wouldn’t be the same in Italy as it was in Scotland. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Use farther when referring to physical distance; use further to refer to abstract ideas or to indicate a greater extent or degree. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was still a household run by a single mother with only a high school equivalency degree, no career skills, no assets, and no immediate prospects for independence. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Since I've never lived anywhere else, whole months of days where it's 100 degrees outside seems normal. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I wanted to stay at Valley Forge and attend its junior college, which would allow me to go through the early commissioning process, receive my associate’s degree, and become a second lieutenant in the Army. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And to varying degrees this is true of all life. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The speed of sound, about 761 miles per hour at sea level in dry air at 59 degrees Fahrenheit, varied depending on temperature, altitude, and humidity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There seemed to be so many people who just couldn’t forgive Dad for not having a college degree like the Captain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Getting a job is more common, and 39 percent of poor people who are hired rise out of poverty, as against 3 5 percent who get at least a two-year college degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Food fads still come and go with alarming speed: A scientific study, a new government guideline, a lone crackpot with a medical degree can change our nation’s diet overnight. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z For the rest of the season, Aimee worked with me to strengthen my performance on bars and to push my degree of difficulty and consistency in all my routines. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Not to deceive myself, I must reply—No: I felt desolate to a degree. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z ‘Four years with no monsters to fight, no battles, no stupid prophecies. Just me and Annabeth, getting our degrees, hanging out at cafes, enjoying California -’ ‘And after that. Annabeth kissed Percy on the cheek. ‘ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The angle between i and the x-axis is 90 degrees. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Her wildness is of such degree, I fear approaching her too quickly even in a story. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Before they were married, both of them had briefly attended community colleges, but each had abandoned the exercise long before getting a degree. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He had graduated from Howard University in 1929 and took a seat in the school’s inaugural one-year master s degree program in mathematics—the same offer Dorothy had been unable to accept. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It had to be over ninety degrees before she even took off her jacket. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They were spun in a giant centrifuge to a degree that would make most people severely ill. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z It must have been about ninety degrees outside. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Each was required to be a qualified test pilot under forty years old with at least a bachelor’s degree. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The roadbed slants down at 45 degrees on both sides. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Life isn’t fair, really If they have the privilege of that medical degree then it comes with a responsibility to help their people.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “When he gets honorary degrees from other places, perhaps they give him fancy robes and he keeps them here for dressing up....Pan, do you really think it’s not poison in that wine?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was seventy-five degrees in Phoenix, the sky a perfect, cloudless blue. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Her old college, Hillsdale, wanted to award her an honorary degree. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “The laws of this state permit the hearing of evidence to ascertain the degree of responsibility. And, also, the law permits the offering of evidence toward the mitigation of punishment.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Each one would only get 13 degrees of arc. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Interestingly, Carpenter had not received his aeronautical engineering degree until after he returned from being the second American in space two months earlier. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z She asked Cambridge whether she might pursue a degree in psychology, which was growing in prominence and credibility. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Don’t be a baby. It’s only like eighty-five degrees,” he said. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z You could tell by the degree of intensity in the shout how bad a thing it was that was happening. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z We assumed that all people were good to the degree to which they amused us, or to the extent to which we could make them objects of laughter. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At night the temperature is bitter cold, as much as two hundred degrees below zero, but at noontime near the equator it can reach a comfortable sixty-five degrees. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In measuring a degree of meridian, the surveyors would create a sort of chain of triangles marching across the landscape. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Alvarez was determined to become part of it as soon as he received his degree. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On especially black days I sometimes tell myself that if I’d loaded up with degrees when I was able, I might not now be teaching anything quite so collegiate and hopeless as Advanced Writing 24-A. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z I repeated this over and over until I found the best grade for my ramp: 30 degrees. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The romance was advancing too quickly and with a degree of intimacy that violated all the intricate rules of courtship. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I said, “Well, why is it that Masons go only to thirty-three degrees?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not meet Communists now without feeling a degree of fear. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The temperatures in August consistently reached over 100 degrees for days and sometimes weeks at a time. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Adele was a registered nurse and also had an associate degree in commercial art. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He was smiling, relaxed — and, as usual, perfect and beautiful to an excruciating degree. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He saw no sign of air conditioning, which meant it must have been a thousand degrees in there. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In reality, there is no sharp break, no difference in kind, between the expert and the layman, only a difference in degree. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When you reach it, turn ninety degrees to the right and take the same number of steps. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z There was only one degree of separation between them. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The woman was Anita Perkins and the man was Leonard Williams, and they both had fancy pedigrees and degrees and obviously tons of connections everywhere. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It was perfectly clear, but it showed her a double image, the right one quite close to the left and about fifteen degrees upward. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He’s getting a degree in journalism at the University of Nebraska not because it’s his passion, but because it was the only in-state college that offered him a scholarship. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He closed that one, turned through ninety degrees, and opened another. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was certain the men in the house were guilty of something, though the extraordinary circumstances of post-storm New Orleans did not allow for the same degree of thoroughness as he would have liked. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z In the fall, I am to come back to finish my degree all on my own. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s studying Astrophysics at a university in California, having finished his undergraduate degree in two years instead of four. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The isolation must be their desire; I couldn’t imagine any door that wouldn’t be opened by that degree of beauty. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z A bachelor’s degree, not a year or two of courses, tends to determine a person’s place in today’s globalized, computerized economy. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Under an outcrop of rock that gave some small degree of shelter from file rain, Sam was feeding the ravens. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The only opinion I can give with some degree of certainty is my own. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But the Central Valley had entire months where the temperature hit 100 degrees every single day. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Spending two months in Sweden in the middle of winter, Bobby found the weather less cold than he’d thought it would be: Temperatures remained close to fifty degrees Fahrenheit. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “What am I going to do about my degree?” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As the two commiserated about Franklin’s radioactive temper, Wilkins opened up to Watson to a degree he never before had. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Let’s see, the tangent of forty degrees is about point eight-four. Call it point eight. Multiply that by nine hundred and sixty...” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Millers, who was the other nurse, retired into the house, and by degrees the child’s wailing was hushed and stopped, as if it were a young ventriloquist with something in its mouth. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Mom’s wearing a cream cable-knit sweater, even though with the humidity it feels like it’s ninety degrees outside. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I should be embracing my chance to get a college degree, not melting down about my past. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Getting a degree—maybe even in the field of business administration. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, the Mediterranean zones of southwestern Australia and, to a lesser degree, of South Africa and western Europe offer a narrower range of altitudes, habitats, and topographies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The air-handling equipment still wasn’t working, and the temperature in the place seemed as if it was above ninety degrees. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I experience so many different health conditions— rapid heart rate, elevated blood pressure, dry mouth, pulmonary shock, muscle spasm—that it is impossible for me to even chronicle the degree of body breakdown. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I had begun correspondence studies for my LL.B., a bachelor of laws degree allowing one to practice as an advocate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Roli points it out and then starts in with mumbo jumbo about summer triangles and degrees of brightness. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The temperature was dropping rapidly, like ten degrees just since I’d been standing there. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The average world temperature, he says, would in the end be raised some thirty degrees, till it attains 72°. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The built-in fly escaped the flames, so it was still more or less weatherproof; now, however, it was approximately thirty degrees colder inside. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The following morning they received honorary doctor of science degrees for their pioneering spirit. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Everyone was celebrated at least in some degree, as though it was a cause for wonder that anyone existed at all. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The temperature outside was ninety degrees, and it was hard to breathe in the courtroom. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It certainly seemed bizarre to my guards, who said I would not need a law degree where I was going. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I got my undergrad degree at the University of Chicago. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He gazed down at Sammy who had just begun breathing with some degree of regularity again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Anytime I asked how he was feeling, though, he gave me the same answer, with the same degree of insistence that he’d given me for years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The day after that Nick turned the classroom thermostat up to about ninety degrees with a little screwdriver he had brought from home. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z No degree of hunger would ever tempt me to eat it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He declined to enroll in courses that could give him a high school equivalency degree. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Fiks, who was working toward a law degree, was a bright, resourceful fellow who had become the head of the prisoners’ committee in our section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Those geographic differences constitute important ultimate answers to Yali’s question about why different peoples ended up with disparate degrees of power and affluence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “My dear Emma,” said he at last, with earnest kindness, “do you think you perfectly understand the degree of acquaintance between the gentleman and lady we have been speaking of?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z He even talked enthusiastically about going on to get a law degree when he graduated. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed clear that he bestowed this same degree of warmth upon every person who crossed his path. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the mid-1950s, a woman named Helen Willey led a successful charge to have every female computer with a math degree upgraded to mathematician, a title that automatically applied to men with the same credential. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Monday was an apple-crisp day with temperatures that never exceeded sixty-two degrees, under vivid cerulean skies. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The temperature in the kitchen might have dropped ten degrees. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Selma University later honored him with a doctor of divinity degree. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And the new, new thing, I was also learning, is the degree to which it is now possible for companies and individuals to source work anywhere. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z When Doha was small, he always thought seonsaengnim only meant schoolteacher, but it actually meant someone with a higher educational degree. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z They heated the material to sixty-five degrees—hot enough to warp most proteins—then added acids to curdle the proteins, and the transmission of genes was still unaltered. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There we were, all five of us standing around a car with the temperature about a million degrees below zero and each and every one of us crying! “ ’top! ’top!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t mention that it was eighty degrees outside. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In August 1856, after two years, James earned his bachelor of arts degree and graduated with honors. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I’m a few months short of a high school degree, but I have a portfolio of landscapes now, both virtual and painted, and I’m going to make a business out of painting wealthy people’s houses. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If the difference in time is one hour, the traveler knows he has gone fifteen degrees. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z But the deterrents to a degree can also be homegrown. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “That’s two squared times three squared times ten. And there are three hundred sixty degrees in a circle. And the line that makes a circle goes on and on and on, without any end.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Just straight-up rotated 180 degrees and started walking in the opposite direction! Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Something about it made Hazel’s stomach rotate a few degrees. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The heat trapped inside the auditorium during the whole stupid summer turned up a degree or two with each new ditto. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “It’s summer. It’s like a hundred degrees in Texas.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Later, in 1764, as tensions between Great Britain and the American colonists increased to an even greater degree, the English parliament passed the Sugar Act. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I feel awful messing up Michael’s life to such a degree, and this awfulness must come through as I speak, because Michael’s father is much less hostile than he has every right to be. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z After graduating with a degree in mathematics, Big Dub moved North, where he spent the next few years teaching at small colored schools in Virginia and Maryland. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z For instance, multiplying by the number i was equivalent to spinning the sphere 90 degrees clockwise. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z "What do you mean, how come? Can't I send candy to my wife without getting the third degree? I thought you were looking on the thin side, okay?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z My new nurse is an unsmiling despot with a nursing degree. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Although she weighed just ninety-one pounds, her sparrowlike proportions disguised a formidable resolve; to an astounding degree, Yasuko had been propelled up the mountain by the unwavering intensity of her desire. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I remember thinking, Who forgets to put on underwear when it’s twenty degrees outside? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Many people had seen the bright glow in the distance, but the true degree of disaster was not known until burned-out friends and relatives began knocking on their doors. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z But he does think about what might have been, about what he could be doing if he had the degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Later, those studying for higher degrees were permitted to read until ten or eleven. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She had turned, just a few degrees, as she approached the lord of all France. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I awoke early on May 11 to clear skies and the relatively warm temperature of twenty degrees Fahrenheit. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The temperature in the room seemed to drop twenty degrees. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Nomenee, his second child, would end up with a degree from Harvard Business School. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The experiment he describes cannot be performed in Cambridge at the beginning of the year: it requires the sun to reach an elevation of 40 degrees above the horizon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By degrees, I managed to extricate from him the evening’s events. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He said I had a high degree of ‘extrasensory perception.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben emptied one box that held ashtrays from Japan, four statues of Buddha in various postures and degrees of corpulence, six oriental silk screens, and two camel seats from Morocco. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In time I earned a master's degree in education from Pepperdine University. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The temperature and humidity inside the army facility were so intense that slipping outdoors into the 100-plus degrees of the central Virginia June summer invited relief. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z That seemed strange to me since they didn’t have a degree either. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She said she would get a better teaching job and earn more money with that degree. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It had always been a notion of his that the kindness of dear Mr. Frodo was of such a high degree that it must imply a fair measure of blindness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Everything is shiny to an oppressive degree; I can practically see my reflection in the marble floor. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They pulled the shell up in front of the starting line, pivoted the Husky Clipper 180 degrees, and backed her up against the gangway. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But Cecilia, having learned modern forms of snobbery at Cambridge, considered a man with a degree in chemistry incomplete as a human being. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She opted to earn a degree in education and pursue teaching, the most stable career for a black woman with a college degree. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Half the fathers of the A group had a college degree or beyond, and this at a time when a university education was a rarity. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z By degrees he lowered the laser beam; he sat gripping it and then he shrugged and returned it to the desk drawer, locking the drawer and restoring the key to his pocket. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z After, we had hot chocolate and played checkers, even though it was a sunny day and over ninety degrees. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Every morning I hoped it would rain, but the sky remained clear blue and the temperatures hovered around ninety degrees. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “It’s just, we don’t know to what degree we’ll succeed. If any. My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They’re the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He said that 360 degrees represented “the sum total of knowledge.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It takes no small degree of humility for him to look back on his life and say, “I was very lucky.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He had an eyestrain headache from trying to read in dim natural light, and even though the school kept its thermostat at fifty-five degrees, he hadn’t been able to shake off the morning chill. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z More people are getting those degrees than did a generation ago, but class still plays a big role in determining who does or does not. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “It records my distance and speed, and I can adjust it for degree of difficulty.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Another African teacher with a bachelor of arts degree was Ben Mahlasela. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, people have been trying to do this sort of thing for a long time, by other techniques and with varying degrees of luck. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of him dealing with Az’s death without her made the icy feeling in her stomach drop a few more degrees. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z About one hundred seconds after the big bang, the temperature would have fallen to one thousand million degrees, the temperature inside the hottest stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Berrange showed that Ngubase had forged certificates for a university degree, had practiced law illegally for several years, and had a further case of fraud pending against him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The water was dark, dajrk blue, and best of all, it was about a hundred degrees cooler. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon graduating with his degree in philosophy, Cabot Searcy was told by his father that he couldn’t have wasted more money or time if he’d tried. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z As the supply of water from the irrigation ditch waxed and waned, the lights flickered on and off and glowed with varying degrees of in-tensity. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In the meantime he had gotten married, and right after his first child, Adrian, was born, he decided to go to college fulltime to get a degree. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She had only recently become the first woman in her family with a college degree and, if everything went well this day, would be the first nurse anybody in her family knew personally. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Veins stood out in bas-relief on the necks of both men but neither arm moved more than two or three degrees to the right or left of the fulcrum point. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I had returned to Baltimore two years earlier, after I’d been accepted at Johns Hopkins University to complete my undergraduate degree, which I’d begun in junior college at Valley Forge. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “I’m pretty fortunate to not have a degree but have a job where I wear a tie every day,” he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Adding a G sharp does raise the fourth degree of the scale by one half step, just as predicted in step 2. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When she completed her associate’s degree, she decided to pursue her and her parents’ longtime dream of completing her bachelor’s. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Now he has a degree to certify his nosiness. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z A thirty-year-old engineer with a degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Semyonov worked for a Soviet trading company based in New York. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been renting the Santiagos’ extra apartment while he finished up his final visual arts degree at Pratt, and he pretty much stayed out of sight. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Mrs. Murphy takes my temperature and it is under one hundred degrees. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It is the union of grace and majesty in the highest degree. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look, I been working all afternoon and I’m hot and dirty and sweaty. Can’t a person just take a shower without going through the third degree?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Which was good, since this time it really wasn’t even close to twenty-one degrees. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z This experiment is where we get the concept of six degrees of separation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By degrees, we descended, and the world sank from view. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Luis says the new grove is holding steady at twenty-nine degrees, and the high spots in the old grove are showing twenty-eight. He says that the worst is over; the temperatures are goin’ back up.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the monsoons hit in May, we have to endure April, our hottest month, with temperatures often reaching no degrees—so hot that even the children stay indoors to avoid the sun. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To reestablish his links to the black community after graduation, he accepted a scholarship from the Urban League to pursue a master’s degree in social work at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z All of them, to varying degrees, were exempt from the law.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He seemed genuinely pleased that I was coming to live with him for the first time with any degree of permanence. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Now there was talk of medical college, which after a literature degree seemed rather pretentious. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The confidential FBI report on Regina dramatically points up the degree to which McCarthy-inspired paranoia gripped America at that time: Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z By the 1980s, he had developed a solid business that didn't generate a lot of extra money but afforded him a gratifying degree of independence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It seems a century ago, but I think there were two reasons, originally, why I didn’t take a degree. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The meridians are perpendicular to the parallels on the surface of the globe; that is, they meet at right angles, or ninety degrees. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I went to the University of Cincinnati for my undergraduate and master’s degrees. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z People with four-year college degrees tended to consider themselves middle class even if they earned little. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She assumed she would go to college, get a degree in something pleasant, then settle into a comfortable job, meet a comfortable guy, and have a nice, unremarkable life. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I go, still feel a calling to act the teacher, though not licensed by the degree. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had the experience, built over a lifetime, but no degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He saw a soft, stooped creature of a man whose dandelion-fluff hair, beard, and brows encroached upon his face to such a degree that only his sharp little nose and round spectacles showed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Mostly Bowdy and I just sat in my basement room, which was maybe five degrees cooler than the rest of the house, and read books and watched TV and played video games. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z She resigned from Langley and returned to her alma mater, Arkansas AM&N, for a masters degree in mathematics. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z People in America don’t care about college degrees or careers from Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The Inka homeland, uniquely high, was also uniquely steep, with slopes of more than sixty-five degrees from the horizontal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Court’s answer was that racial bias would be tolerated—virtually to any degree—so long as no one admitted it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Norwood, whose first love was trigonometry and thus angles, decided to bring a little mathematical rigor to navigation and to that end he determined to calculate the length of a degree. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Employers openly discriminated against Irish and Jewish women with math degrees; the odds of a black woman encountering work in the field hovered near zero. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The blast heated the ground beneath the explosion to over 5,000 degrees. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This can happen only at very high temperatures where the particles are moving so fast that the repulsive force does not have time to act—temperatures of tens of millions of degrees. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Theoretically the stroke oar always rows at the rate and with the degree of power called for by the coxswain, but in the end it is the stroke who ultimately controls these things. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I know I have what it takes and I am going to do what it takes to make my next goal, a college degree and an NFL career! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It had been a foregone conclusion on my father’s part and on mine that I would go on to there after high school for my bachelor’s degree. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z At noon, when the temperature inside reached one hundred and eleven degrees, Brave Orchid went out to the sidewalk and said, “Let’s eat.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My inability to discern the obvious was exacerbated to some degree by the guide-client protocol. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He just giggled, exasperating Ammu to a degree she never thought herself capable of. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He told me that if I succeeded, I would have to go to a university and get a degree. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z You don’t have to use a protractor to figure out the degrees. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The heat had abated by just a degree or two. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In Manhattan, where it would reach 106 degrees, forty people would die. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “I don’t have to see my Mountain Goat grabbing a sheepskin to know she’s got her college degree.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But let a black dude walk through the door, and it’s “Security Alert” in the first degree. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His expression softened just a fraction of a degree. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z A variation of one degree was not tolerated. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Stone worked for nine years to save enough money to cover her tuition at Oberlin College, and she became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree, in 1847. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The degree of morality in my writing depended upon the degree of felt life and truth I could put down upon the printed page. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z My dad spent most of that last year at LSU skipping classes so he could be with my mom, who wondered why getting a degree didn't actually require attending lectures. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z For Locke there are ‘three degrees of Knowledge, viz. Intuitive, Demonstrative, and Sensitive: in each of which, there are different degrees and ways of Evidence and Certainty’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And I could elaborate on this at some length and with, I believe, a fair degree of accuracy. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z By degrees he came to spend less time in sleep, but he still felt no impulse to get off the bed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was a disease, rhetorical smallpox, and every visitor exhibited it in some degree. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The whole plant is kept at thirty-six degrees. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Even with my background, I was astonished at the degree to which the major single image of America seemed to be discrimination. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was maybe thirty degrees outside, but I stood there sweating. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially for so great a girl—she looked thirteen or upwards. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Quite a few did not have high school degrees and elected courses to qualify for that degree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was finishing his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Idaho State. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Hoyle also realized that if stars imploded they would liberate huge amounts of heat–100 million degrees or more, enough to begin to generate the heavier elements in a process known as nucleosynthesis. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Hey, man. Interested in a degree in art or graphic design?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z A chord bordun means that the 1st and 5th degrees are played simultaneously. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Fewer than 5 percent of the neighborhood’s adults had a college degree; barely one in three adult men worked at all. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Multiplying by i turns the vector ninety degrees to the left and does not change the length,” Jake said. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z As for their mother, Mr. Collins’s letter had done away much of her ill-will, and she was preparing to see him with a degree of composure which astonished her husband and daughters. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Hadn’t they, in fact, prospered to an unprecedented degree under Jim Crow? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z On a larger scale, to a more intense degree, of course, but I remember the quality of the pain. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Another factor is the decline, to some degree, of the cons’ code of ethics. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He would say that we had a high of 87 degrees yesterday. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course he doesn’t know that my father has multiple graduate degrees. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z She applied for a job and was hired right away, since she had a degree, and there were never enough teachers in Battle Mountain. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z At one point, one of the social workers interjected, saying to the group, “Eighty degrees and sunny!” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He would hold up Ernest as an example to his other students— sometimes to an embarrassing degree. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Around nine o’clock the temperature had risen to almost one hundred degrees. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It was still almost eighty degrees outside, the sun hadn’t even set, and he stood in his dark three-piece suit, smiling his stiff, press-on smile, gesturing to everybody and nobody like the Queen of England. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z To some degree, then, black minstrelsy—as degrading as it was—represented success. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z No doubt, it was hard to come to public terms with my mother’s past employment at Joe’s strip club, but confronting it made me feel a certain degree of freedom. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The boat will rotate, about sixty degrees, and the mainsail and boom will swing from one side to the other. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It was one of Morrie’s first jobs after plowing through a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z From this, he reasoned he could determine the length of one degree of the Earth’s meridian and thus calculate the distance around the whole. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I had given up studying for an LL.B. degree at the University of the Witwatersrand after failing my exams several times. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Sandnes received her master’s degree in social work, became a licensed counselor, and still works at The Children’s Home as the counseling services manager. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I turn back to see it sail ninety degrees the wrong direction and land right in the middle of Nat’s button box, tipping it into her grid game. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s one of my few regrets in life, not getting my college degree. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z For the Arabs, and for astronomers relying on Arabic sources, Arim represented the degree zero of longitude and latitude. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Judy, what would you do if you had a hundred and three degrees of fever?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It’s 3:54, forty- six degrees, and we’re taking you on a tour of our lives! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We the jury find the defendant, Richard Eugene Hickock, guilty of murder in the first degree, and the punishment is death.’” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z "Tilting at 10.5 degrees now, with gusts pushing it to eleven." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The charming smile that accompanies the statement catches Celia off guard, as she has rarely seen anything but varying degrees of reserved attentiveness or occasional nervousness on his countenance. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A letter came from Aunt Carrol, and Mrs. March’s face was illuminated to such a degree when she read it that Jo and Beth, who were with her, demanded what the glad tidings were. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The same is also true, though to a less extreme degree, for Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were always in touch, even when she remarried and went to Europe to finish her medical degree when Bobby was in his twenties. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, he said, it would take years to get a degree part-time. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But the Everest region lies at 28 degrees north latitude—just beyond the tropics—and as soon as the sun rose high enough to penetrate the depths of the canyon the temperature soared. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I did end up graduating from Hampden, with a degree in English literature. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z That June Danny and I were among the seventy-eight students who were graduated from Hirsch College, to the accompaniment of numerous speeches, applause, honorary degrees, and family congratulations. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z When I got home at night, and delivered this message for Joe, my sister “went on the Rampage,” in a more alarming degree than at any previous period. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The overall effect, he wrote, “is thus to be in some degree of the character of a theatrical scene, to occupy the Exposition stage for a single summer.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “The devil has only thirty-three degrees of knowledge- known as Masonry,” Reginald said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But Meng does have a girlfriend, and they are to be married when he returns from France with his degree. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer is that in the six degrees of separation, not all degrees are equal. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you understand that you are being charged with murder in the second degree in that you did feloniously and with malice aforethought kill and murder Benjamin DiAngelo?” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Today few Christians would endorse this argument, but that doesn’t make it any easier to assign the correct degree of blame to their ancestors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Their parents, understanding the importance of a bachelor’s degree, spent hours reading to them, researching school districts, and making it clear to them that they simply must graduate from college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Granted, the man has a good head on his shoulders, but it’s swelled to no small degree. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Chuse your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z The camera can rotate 360 degrees, and I have plenty of antenna parts. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mayor Harrison warned that the ranks of the unemployed had swollen to an alarming degree. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Not all social animals are social with the same degree of commitment. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The new system of control is traceable, to a significant degree, to a massive bribe offered to state and local law enforcement by the federal government. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The temperature is steady at minus ten degrees Centigrade but the maritime office predicts it will dip even lower. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Morrie wore a long- sleeved blue shirt—he was almost always chilly, even when it was ninety degrees outside—but Koppel removed his jacket and did the interview in shirt and tie. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom wants to get her business degree so she can get promoted, earn more money, and have a better schedule. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Wasn’t the purpose of a college degree to get away from the need to work dirty and difficult jobs? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The water temperature bubbled a few degrees above comfortable—not scalding as I’d feared, but hot enough to scare me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z At the end of June, a heat wave of a hundred degrees moves in and doesn’t budge. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In the month of Oekre there were ten days and nights when the temperature never went below sixty degrees, and one day the heat rose to 88°. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The sun was in the middle of the sky, it was over 120 degrees, and we were barefoot. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He preferred someone who truly wanted to live among the apes and learn about their behavior to someone who simply wanted an academic degree. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z What you need at the outset is a high degree of uncertainty; otherwise it isn’t likely to be an important problem. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike me, he’d worked for several years after finishing his undergrad degree at Columbia before moving on to law school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Which wouldn't have been so bad on a day that wanted to be a hundred degrees. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It is the lowest temperature possible, a little more than 273 degrees Celsius below the freezing point of water. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Entropy is the degree of randomness or disorder in a system, Doctor.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She asked couldn’t she take courses now without expecting a degree. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then his patron helped him enter the University of Idaho as an undergraduate, aiming toward a law degree. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, “I took my temperature and it’s one hundred point seven degrees.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But it’s got to be almost ninety degrees. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z While Fremont was a balmy sixty-five degrees in December, San Francisco, sitting next to the foggy Pacific Ocean, could be closer to thirty. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z She had to repeat a few classes, but she eventually graduated with a master’s degree. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Dad's giving me the third degree, major interrogation, and it really ticks me off. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Attuned to each other to an almost spooky degree, they achieved things that others considered impossible. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z What did an education and a fancy degree have to do with seeing? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z But engraved, four years from now, on a bachelor of arts degree? The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I hurry over, and the sensor beeps as I reset it to thirty degrees. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Even if it is ninety-five degrees in the shade—and sometimes it is—no one wears shorts on the first day of school. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z She had a teaching degree, he pointed out. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z After receiving his bachelor’s degree, Ernest moved on to graduate study at the University of Minnesota, where Merle Tuve was already enrolled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The monster pushed against the Argo II. The deck lurched to forty-five degrees. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In the meantime, on Walter’s recommendation, Lazar Sidelsky had agreed to take me on as a clerk while I completed my B.A. degree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Blacks had offered their services as a group, and yet Carey had not bothered to praise them for this or honor them to the same degree he honored those on the committee. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I mean, I do sort of tell my mom everything, to a degree that’s almost pathological. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The average January temperature in the city is 18 degrees Fahrenheit, well below freezing. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Ginnie was, in fact, slightly put off by this information, whatever its degree of truth, but not to the point of sentimentality. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Yet it predicts the motions of the sun, the moon, and the planets to a high degree of accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The temperature in the apartment was about fifty degrees, which was where he’d set the oil burner thermostat, but Bri made things feel warm and sunny again. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The temperature had dropped ten degrees, and more snow fell in the afternoon. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Before this they had lived as individuals, each somewhat afraid of the other, each seeking his own pleasure, each stanch in that degree of Americanism that had been allowed him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z What had started as a little camp for Mum and me ended up, six years later, as a research center, where students could come and collect information for their degrees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Abby received her degree and moved off to another university, while Mrs. Linden was, in the end, fired when Eliot’s mother discovered that Mrs. Linden’s thermos contained more whiskey than coffee. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The Sorting continued; boys and girls with varying degrees of fright on their faces moving one by one to the four-legged stool, the line dwindling slowly as Professor McGonagall passed the L’s. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z And Vespucci had sailed 50 degrees south of the equator: this was not just the equatorial antipodes that some exponents of the two-spheres theory had envisaged. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My eyes kept flashing to the window, trying to judge the degree of light behind the heavy clouds. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Lavoisier had thirteen thousand of them in what was, to an almost preposterous degree, the finest private laboratory in existence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Eventually, once the temperature had dropped to a few thousand degrees, and electrons and nuclei no longer had enough energy to overcome the electromagnetic attraction between them, they would have started combining to form atoms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew my parents would never go for it, but it was nice to know I had options if my undocumented status meant a bachelor's degree wasn't in my future. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Hence, whites placed a premium upon black deceit; they encouraged irresponsibility; and their rewards were bestowed upon us blacks in the degree that we could make them feel safe and superior. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Those humble replicas of the revelry of former times served to show Aureliano Segundo himself how much his spirits had declined and to what a degree his skill as a masterful carouser had dried up. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Most people who enroll say they plan to get a four-year degree eventually; few actually do. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In the Kelvin scale, zero degrees is absolute zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The degree of difficulty had just gone up, but Shanti hadn’t spent two years under the tutelage of her handler, Mrs. Mirabov, for nothing. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the part of Africa where he had lived all his life, the temperature rarely dropped below seventy degrees. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z At low tide the shed sat on a sloping mud bank, listing twenty-five degrees from bow to stern. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My dad had a degree in mechanical engineering from Louisiana State University, but since he was undocumented, it was impossible for him to get hired for jobs that fit his qualifications. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In Steiger’s case, of course, his high connectedness is a function of his versatility as an actor and, in all likelihood, some degree of good luck. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the shelves held the textbooks Mother used for teaching seventh-grade English and for the night classes she took to get her master’s degree. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It permeates the world to a ridiculous degree. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Less than a month ago, I was within days of an Ivy League degree and a career at my father’s side. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She obtained her bachelor’s degree at Columbia in 2003 and began graduate work in cybernetics. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Miss Trixie was never perfectly vertical; she and the floor always met at an angle of less than ninety degrees. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Eighty-two degrees. Moderate humidity. Decent barometric pressure, which is good. Winds out of the east at only about six miles per hour. Quiet day,” I say. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Yeah, some guy might get fired because of the pallet of Corn Flakes that went missing from the supermarket, but that’s degrees removed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But take a look at the following list of where the last twenty-five Americans to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine got their undergraduate degrees, starting in 2007. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z They invited all their friends from college and church and convinced the management to crank the heat up to eighty degrees? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Gleaning had always been at least three degrees removed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Cliff was in his seventies and still minding the tobacco barn behind the farmhouse his father had built decades earlier, checking the furnaces several times a day to make sure they stayed at 120 degrees. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z What she wouldn’t give for restful sleep like that, not to mention the degree of control he had within his dreams. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The temperature is going to hit a ridiculously high eighty degrees for April. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z One afternoon at Valley Forge I was talking to my college adviser about what to do after I received my associate’s degree. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The seven before me all graduated and most went on for higher degrees. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He would’ve gone to medical school, got twelve doctorate degrees and bought a large green python on a stick. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “It’s definitely more complicated, given the cultural scripts we’ve all grown up with,” said Woolner, who has a master’s degree in counseling and radiates a thoughtful sincerity. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The day was warm for winter—forty-five degrees—and all the snow had melted away. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Joshua had always expected that Katherine would earn a graduate degree, but the circumstances made finishing the program impossible. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z We each take one, pull him one hundred and eighty degrees around, and start to drag him into the saltwater. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Any of you who have yelled at the kids, you’ve been distracted. Any of you who looked at a flock of geese while driving, you’ve been distracted. It’s just a matter of degree.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I wonder he did not remember the book”—was all Harriet’s answer, and spoken with a degree of grave displeasure which Emma thought might be safely left to itself. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z If the heat goes over 104 degrees in South Carolina, you have to go to bed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a hundred and ten degrees, easy, and we must’ve looked like deep-fried vagrants, but everybody was too interested in the wild animals to pay us much attention. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we’ve all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joysticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Goose bumps exploded across both arms, even though it was a million degrees outside. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It was like the third degree, only he was both interrogator and suspect, both tough cop and hounded prisoner, a cruel spotlight pinning him in a blinding circle of light. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It's about 65 degrees, so it feels like when the air conditioner is up on high. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Many more students from all classes are getting four-year degrees and reaping their benefits. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I’ll finish high school, go to college, get my law degree, and be out of here. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Having established premeditation of great degree, Green left the witness to the ministrations of the defense. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I certainly wasn’t seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt typical of the dismissive behavior some officers with college degrees had toward enlisted men like him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Now he had one, a pretty one, from a suitably high caste, who would soon have a master’s degree. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z But to completely disregard a person's disability would be unfair in evaluating what degree of culpability to assign and what sentence to impose. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Yeah, and Ignatius got him a master’s degree and all.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “A fraction of a degree warmer or cooler and the whole thing would have been a waste of our time.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Instruments a mile from the blast measured temperatures of 750 degrees Fahrenheit. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That sounds impressive, except that Tjaden then went back and performed an even more heroic calculation, figuring out what the average degree of connectedness was for everyone who had ever acted in Hollywood. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to that psychology degree, my brother can read folks like a pro. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Ninety-one degrees in Singapore yesterday, fifty-one in Stockholm. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The songs they sang were full of it Some were vulgar, some were sagas, some were light-hearted to a degree. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z What’s more, the crucial word “admits of infinite shades, from the very light to very dark. How am I to judge of the degree intended?” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “You’ll be of more financial help to your family farther down the road with a college degree. Next.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z On the return trip, the vehicle skidded through the friction of the increasingly dense atmosphere, building up heat that could reach 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The rotating bank sign says it is 22 degrees. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z It took me a while, but I eventually got my bachelor’s degree from a college that mails the coursework to inmates at my prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Some bodies fully dressed, some naked and some in all degrees of dishevelment. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The chlorinated hydrocarbons are precisely the kind of agent that can bring about this kind of indirect carcinogenesis, because all of them are toxic in some degree to the liver. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When everyone was back at the table, Mrs. Richardson began the delicate work of turning the conversation by degrees. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Her hands shook and her lips chattered together as if she’d just come in from a snowstorm although it was warm and humid outside, about eighteen degrees. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, Bobby would increase the degree of difficulty by reading chess books in multiple languages. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s like a hot water bottle plopped on top of the colored neighborhood, making it ten degrees worse than the rest of Jackson. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Want is our companion from birth to death, familiar as the seasons or the earth, varying only in degree. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He dreamed of how he would get a bachelor’s degree in communications or business management and then a doctorate in theology. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The man’s eyes glazed over, imagining such possessions; he drifted by degrees into a trance. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z IQ is a measure, to some degree, of innate ability. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I heard Mother tell a room of devoted faces that sixty-five percent of Dad’s upper body had been burned to the third degree. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I’m not sure it was even twenty-one degrees. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z The water, opaque with glacial sediment and only a few degrees warmer than the ice it had so recently been, was the color of wet concrete. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z While it was not unusual for a scientist with an advanced degree to have read widely outside his or her chosen specialty, Oppenheimer’s range of interests was unusually broad. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Squaring up required strong wrists and a fine degree of motor control, and Joe just couldn’t seem to get the hang of it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But this admission, made in national magazines, only brought me a greater degree of success. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z What kind of job could a guy without a college degree get? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The chord built on the seventh degree of the scale is a diminished chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I imagine this was to provide some degree of protection for die people below in case there was anything—or anyone—thrown down from above. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Both suffered from prolonged exposure in waters estimated at 48 degrees yesterday when their kayak overturned. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I asked him was three hundred and sixty degrees, then, the maximum of degrees in anything? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In his opening testimony, Ngubase told the court he had obtained a bachelor of arts degree from Fort Hare, and that he was a practicing attorney. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A northeastern wind had joined the cold front, and it felt twenty degrees colder than the day before. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z At Harvard, I could study law while pursuing a graduate degree in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, which appealed to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “I needed the loan....I told him it’s so I can finish my degree at the university.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Must be a hundred degrees up there,” a big man said, kicking off his shoes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Mary Elizabeth wants to go to Berkeley and get two degrees. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z My mother, who has a master’s degree in psychology, says that Dr. Zamborska has never stopped wishing that he had been killed instead of his wife. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At first he thought he was losing his balance—it even made him stumble once or twice—for the buildings were two or three degrees out of the vertical, all leaning the same way. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Bill was an engineer, and Daisy a stay-at-home mom who would later enter the workforce and earn master’s degrees in education and psychology. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z As the conversation continued, Chronicler’s expression had grown by degrees more puzzled and more intent. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z After she earned her degree, Van had visited her in Huntington, spending time with her family as any serious suitor would. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But there was a striking difference between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres: the degree of interaction between their great cultural centers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Robert dove deep into chemistry and physics in high school, graduated from Harvard University in 1925, then earned advanced degrees at top universities in Britain and Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As he tried to put on the brakes, she grabbed hold of his arm, and together they spun around three hundred and sixty degrees. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Well, we came as graduate students. I applied to Emory University business school and Grandma applied to Georgia Tech for a master’s degree in mechanical engineering.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z In the sunlight, I stared at the old elm tree ahead of me and smiled, because to some degree, Fullbrook had done its job. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z At this point he could not discern her degree of seriousness. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The temperature around Finn dropped twenty degrees, and Finn’s skin burned with the cold. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Mariam found it exhausting to watch the girl’s lolloping enthusiasm—and had to admit, if only privately, to a degree of admiration. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Papi did two years at a community college and is proud of his associates degree. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I think this problem—not being taken into account—exists in some degree, however minimal, for nearly all people who work in prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Friends of his, people with college degrees, were not earning close to that, he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z All very nice - except the temperature was about a hundred and five degrees. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The moon is out, but it is 90 degrees. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In the summer, the temperatures inside rose as high as 115 degrees, which is why prisoners would later call Leavenworth the Hot House. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Then he read physics at University College, London, and had commenced work on an advanced degree when the war broke out. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Over the years she was showered with awards, tributes, and honorary degrees. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z T. R. Wexler had a master's degree in business administration, an advanced degree in corporate law, and had served two years as legal counsel to the Westing Paper Products Corporation. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z She knocked off a master’s degree in mathematics from Atlanta University, and then taught school in Arkansas, Georgia, and Tennessee before coming to Langley in 1943, where she was hired as a P-l mathematician. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Gey paid his way through a biology degree at the University of Pittsburgh by working as a carpenter and mason, and he could make nearly anything for cheap or free. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A name designated Not-to-Be- Spoken indicated the highest degree of disgrace. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z And then I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Six degrees of separation doesn’t mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the very least I will come out of it with a degree, and with a degree you can always teach. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I rang for the tea, and the waiter, reappearing with his magic clue, brought in by degrees some fifty adjuncts to that refreshment, but of tea not a glimpse. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Are you interested in a degree in art? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z As though in evidence, it offered a degree of detail that could have been of little use to anyone other than an executioner. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It gives great pleasure to the Editor to hear, from every quarter of our City, that universal health prevails in a degree equal to any former period. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z If it’s ninety degrees outside and the sky is cloudless, he will bet you that it’s going to rain. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z The fact that he is single doesn’t worry him, and yet he is conscious of the degree to which it troubles his mother. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Standing across the street from Thomas’s house, I felt my blood boil to a sizzling 212 degrees Fahrenheit, bringing heat to my cheeks and fingertips. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It was April 2000 in southern Mexico, and the outdoor temperature was climbing past 100 degrees. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The federal government no longer made any effort to enforce federal civil rights legislation, and funding for the Freedmen’s Bureau was slashed to such a degree that the agency became virtually defunct. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The measure had restored a degree of peace to King's Landing and quartered the number of corpses found in the alleys of a morning, yet Varys said the people cursed him for it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry. I apologize. No more third degree. I won’t say another word.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Ma settled in to get her college degree in social work from Temple University at age sixty-five. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars has a tilt of just over 25 degrees, so it's pointed at Deneb. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Ms. G decided to read the story aloud, so everyone would know the degree of individuality put into our stories. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z When we arrived, on December 31, it was eighty-five degrees, and the Santa Ana winds whipped against the rickety walls of our motel room. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Not only that—it was close to 95 degrees and very humid. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The earth also completes one full rotation every 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.09 seconds, and has an axial tilt of 23.4 degrees. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z She says a lot of people just make up degrees to put by their names. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Even among those agitated enough to write letters, only about a quarter said the program had scared them to any degree. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I was glad that she hadn’t overworked herself to get some fancy business school degree. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She’d managed to turn Sciron one hundred and eighty degrees, but he still saw the water in front of him, the rolling countryside at his back. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then he throttled up, turned tight, and motored west, adjusting to the north less than five degrees in the hope of stumbling across a buoy marker. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z This suggested to me the Optimal Fragmentation Principle: innovation proceeds most rapidly in a society with some optimal intermediate degree of fragmentation: a too-unified society is at a disadvantage, and so is a too-fragmented society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was as though the season had exhausted itself, for on January first the temperature shot up to sixty-one degrees and slushed the whiteness overnight. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z From there he attended Alabama State Teachers College in Montgomery and earned his bachelor of science degree. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A degree in semiotics was not required to see that I was in the presence of an ironist. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It never seemed to go above forty degrees Fahrenheit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The nondecreasing behavior of a black hole’s area was very reminiscent of the behavior of a physical quantity called entropy, which measures the degree of disorder of a system. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the only schools to offer a joint degree as a doctor-anthropologist. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z If finishing college and becoming an artist had been a dream for my father, he quickly redirected his hopes, using his wages to help pay for his younger brother’s degree in architecture instead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When I have thought about it, sometimes I am inclined to a certain degree towards their opinion. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Freezing rain, the kind that would have been snow if it had been five degrees colder. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Despite good performance reviews, a P-l rating was out of his reach, because the grade required a bachelor’s degree. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As an example Bernstein cites He felt it offered the best opportunity to do fundamental research in chemistry, which was what he had taken his Doctor of Philosophy degree in. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Accruing half a million dollars in high-interest loan debt for an engineering degree I can steal online? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z When it was 95 degrees outside, the machine kept the area around the president's bed at a comfortable 75 degrees. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Candidates would need a degree of stenographic and typewriting skill, but what he most looked for and was so very adept at sensing was that alluring amalgam of isolation, weakness, and need. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Getting a degree was always really important to me, and I didn’t want being in here to change that. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Until my marriage I had been hearing from my old friend Link, living in faraway places as he piled up awards and degrees from this country’s most prestigious educational institutions. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In dealing with Hobbits it is important to remember who is related to whom, and in what degree. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z We wouldn’t care what Mr. van Maaren thought of the situation except that he’s known to be unreliable and to possess a high degree of curiosity. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It had never developed, however, into a comprehensive system—operating instead largely as a matter of custom, enforced with varying degrees of consistency. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my liberty of mind: his praise and notice were more restraining than his indifference. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Outside, the temperature had dropped almost twenty degrees. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Like me, she had two Ivy League degrees and routinely sat at tables where nobody looked like her. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When a navigator knows his coordinates—the degree of latitude and degree of longitude he is at—he knows where on the wide, blank ocean he is. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He was a moody, complicated man, possibly suffering from some degree of clinical depression, who found himself in possession of musical talents even he couldn’t quite come to terms with. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z If the blade entered the water at any angle other than ninety degrees, the amount of power generated by the subsequent stroke would be compromised and the efficiency of the whole boat reduced. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In late June, the Fentress Indicator reported that the temperature was 106 degrees in the middle of the street outside the newspaper office. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “The observance of these standards,” Veblen wrote, “in some degree of approximation, becomes incumbent upon all classes lower in the scale.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She promptly went back to school and earned three degrees in law from the Washington College of Law at American University. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The high will be sixty-seven degrees—a perfect fall day. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I stepped in and was suddenly in a tropical climate at least twenty degrees warmer and considerably more humid than the actual outdoors. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z He knew, too, that the passport to success in America is not getting into college but finishing with a four-year degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Yet there is often a weak correlation between degrees of explicit and implicit bias; many people who think they are not biased prove when tested to have relatively high levels of bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She is a professor in the psychology department, where she supervises students who are getting master’s degrees. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Also it says in the book Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching his mind at will. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I had left Howard without a degree and was living on the impoverished wages of a freelance writer. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Because I had no training, no degree, no experience, I had not imagined that I could be chosen for such a study. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He looked up to check the gasbag and saw it sway a degree or two, leaning toward the hills. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It had to be eighty degrees in here. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The temperature in the house was down to fifty degrees, but Billy hadn’t noticed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In her degrees, she prepared them for the liberation that awaited them, for she had pledged to set them free upon her death. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z During the summer the daytime temperature hovers around ninety-five degrees in the shade—if you can find any shade. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z No one questioned her, even though it was thirty-five degrees and the trees lining the sidewalk bent against the strain of the wind. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z On a modern school protractor you cannot distinguish ten minutes of a degree, and only one astronomer before Kepler would have thought such a measurement unsatisfactory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Europe was, to be sure, burdened with aristocratic legacies and gross disparities in wealth that were not present to the same degree in America. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She grew up in Montgomery and went to Alabama State College, but she had a master’s degree in education from Columbia University in New York City. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “Her stick points to within 3 degrees of true north.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It might have been 34 degrees the previous evening, and now it was 31 degrees. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At length he prolonged his remark into “Pip, I do assure you this is as-TON-ishing!” and so, by degrees, became conversational and able to walk away. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z You know, when you go to Oxford to get a degree in English literature, as I have, people always want to know who your favorite English author is. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And this is mayhem to the nth degree. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z But in order for me to become articled, I first had to complete my B.A. degree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was home for my mom until her parents earned enough money to bring the family to the States to fulfill my grandfather’s dream of a theology degree from an American university. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Climbing was like life itself, only it was cast in much sharper relief, and nothing had ever hooked Beck to such a degree. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z What they share is not a vague Zeitgeist but the social and cultural environment, which must have affected artist and patron alike to some degree. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I would be trusted to pursue my own projects with a large degree of freedom. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We had a kind of gentleman’s code between us: I would not escape and thereby get him into trouble, while he permitted me a degree of freedom. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Lots of people work hard at skilled jobs but lack something—a degree, a credential, sometimes a union card—that would give them better pay and more job security. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Gerald Black had taken his degree in etheric physics the year before and, in common with his entire generation of physicists, found himself engaged in the problem of the Drive. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z There’s something about the way Kaylee looks around at everyone that makes me think she might be able to rotate her head more than 180 degrees, too. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z At length, not coming out of her distraught state by degrees, but in an instant, Miss Havisham said, “Let me see you two play cards; why have you not begun?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t require a degree or vocational skills. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z On the other hand, his decision had yielded an unforeseen dividend: in this moment of crisis, he could hardly be dismissed before he got his degree. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Until then, I’d be grateful if you didn't give me the third bloody degree on how I choose to juggle your bills. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z So, after completing my graduate degree, I joined the world of high finance on Wall Street. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z There was always a degree of tension as we tried to communicate what we needed: We didn’t want to appear rude or ungrateful, but we didn’t want to buy food that we would not eat. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z On winter nights the average temperature is a degree below freezing—cold, but not any colder than New England, and considerably warmer than one would expect at 12,600 feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "You remembered. Yes, I did. I'm taking some courses at night for my master's degree now." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to tell, but Alex didn’t think the temperature got much below twenty degrees in the daytime outside, so it would probably be about that, maybe a bit warmer, inside. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z His father got his degree from Cambridge University and was an economics professor. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She was desperate to be an engaged parent, 180 degrees of difference from how she felt her parents treated her. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In 1940, just 2 percent of all black women earned college degrees, and 60 percent of those women became teachers, mostly in public elementary and high schools. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Goddard realized that to fulfill that purpose he needed to get an education, and he pursued his studies all the way to a Ph.D. degree. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The planet has a few degrees of tilt to the plane of the ecliptic, not enough to make an appreciable seasonal difference in low latitudes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The air inside the mobile home was at least twenty degrees cooler than outside. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “He’s wondering about a medical degree. Leon, I wish you hadn’t asked him.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And the 22 million blacks realize increasingly that physically, politically, economically, and even to some degree socially, the aroused black man can create a turmoil in white America’s vitals—not to mention America’s international image. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z To participate, then, in the pomp of the orchestra, in the full scintillation thereof, was in the highest degree thrilling. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z After two years of trundling and triangulating his way across France, in 1669 he announced a more accurate measure of 110.46 kilometers for one degree of arc. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Something else begins to fill me, though, an energy like the flaming heat of the sun—all 5,600 degrees Celsius of it—and I make a pact with myself. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They have such varying degrees of color and shape and style. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It presupposed a high level of military discipline and an awesome degree of obedience by subordinates to their lawful superiors It assumed that wars had a beginning and an end. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z My grandfather was respected for two reasons: he was a preacher, and he had a college degree. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t see myself not being able to find a job with a degree from Duke,” I said sadly. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z She imagined that they all had university degrees, that they worked in office buildings, behind desks of their own, where they typed and smoked and made important telephone calls to important people. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z There are no degrees of uniqueness, because the unique is absolute. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Maze prison's in Northern Ireland where Bobby Sands and the IRA hunger strikers died by degrees. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He thinks he can get his bachelor’s degree in three years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The awkward stems of the flowers had been bent to just the right degree of restful looseness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She blinks a few times, considering, then Isabelle comes up and announces that the regional manager will be visiting our store tomorrow, so everything has to be “zoned to the nth degree.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z What was worse, it was possible to get a university degree in biology without learning any genetics. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Its author was somebody with several academic degrees after his name. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He can then convert the difference in time to a distance in degrees. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I walked putting heel down first, toes pointing outward thirty to forty degrees, making the ideograph “eight,” making the ideograph “human.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Virgilio Morales has recently returned from Venezuela where he earned his medical degree. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In forty degrees, I sweat like iced tea in August and here I woke up this morning to eighty-three on the dial. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The difference between Euripides’ Medea and Apollonius’ heroine and also Virgil’s Dido is in its degree a measure of what Greek tragedy was. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The heat at home was set to a normal sixty-seven degrees and there were no inflatable flamingos on the porch. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Bolles was working on his master’s degree in history, and it seemed unlikely that he would want to leave the university until he finished it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then Rhodri said to me, “God, you do get the third degree, don’t you.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Braising the pig leg at 250 degrees would take half the day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Above the South Col, up in the Death Zone, survival is to no small degree a race against the clock. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Penelope tossed and turned for hours, and when morning finally came, for once she did not wish the water in her washbasin even one degree warmer than it was. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z They keep the gym at about forty degrees because “a little cool air never hurt anyone.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Domestic races of the same species...often have a somewhat monstrous character....They often differ in an extreme degree in some one part.... The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The students and friends he’d hung out with in Korea cared mostly about Korean nationalism or what college they were going to—preferably in the United States—and what degree they would earn. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z My encounter with Rosy opened up Maurice to a degree that I had not seen before. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It seemed hotter than Phoenix or Battle Mountain, where it regularly climbed above a hundred degrees, so when Dad told me it was only ninety degrees, I said the thermometer must be broken. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Seven degrees is something like one-fiftieth of three hundred and sixty degrees, the full circumference of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But whenever someone closed in on him, he rolled his window down and let them know, even though they had their windows rolled up because it was about zero degrees outside. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z By degrees, after the morning’s dawn, sleep came. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z When they reached the bow of the ship, the figurehead turned a hundred and eighty degrees to look at them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Dave Arno, though he had a four-year-college degree and part of a master’s, had managed a Burger King, unable to find any other job in the Syracuse area. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It must’ve been close to a hundred degrees, which was a shock after San Francisco. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Fischer and Orasanu found that captains overwhelmingly said they would issue a command in that situation: “Turn thirty degrees right.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Of course you’ll get your degree. Those tax laws are complicated!” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The air inside the packing plant was several degrees cooler than outside, on account of the brick walls, but it reeked of the same slaughter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Although she’d been watching my knitting to some degree, it had been a while since Mother had inspected my fine sewing. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He wore a long robe, patched and mended to such a degree that I couldn’t really guess at its original color or shape. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Minor deviations earned her little frowns on wise brows, or a degree of frostiness and withdrawal of sympathy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Our racially biased system of mass incarceration exploits the fact that all people break the law and make mistakes at various points in their lives and with varying degrees of justification. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That name seemed to lower the temperature in the room by fifty degrees. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I shook my head: it required a degree of courage, excited as he was becoming, even to risk that mute sign of dissent. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z And it did lead to a degree of celebrity, at least locally. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He said he liked to go to doctors’ offices and see their certificates and degrees on the wall. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His most sustained attack on rhetoric comes in his dialogue Gorgias, where he imagines Socrates giving the eponymous rhetorician the third degree.* Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z In the winter, the temperature can sink to 100 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It was the Round-Tower Dwelling, which signaled a high degree of shifgrethor in the court: not so much the king’s favor, as his recognition of a status already high. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Among whites, those expressing the highest degree of concern about crime also tend to oppose racial reform, and their punitive attitudes toward crime are largely unrelated to their likelihood of victimization. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He is mediocre to the last degree, though as obnoxious and self-satisfied as was his father before him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But he managed pretty well and kept working on his college degree as hard as ever. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z All polynomials of degree n—those that have a leading term of xn—split into n distinct terms. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “I’m not interested in admirers until I have my law degree.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By degrees the range of my appetite increased. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The New York Times Clearly, a degree from a four-year college makes even more difference than it once did. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Go to college, get a law degree, and then you’ll be able to have a real impact.’ Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She fixed on a longitude between ninety and seventy degrees. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Visits and letters were restricted to “first degree” relatives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The spring sun seemed to have cooled several degrees. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z At the University of Washington and later at Seattle University, he immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Your body shivers, even when you’re indoors and the temperature is seventy-five degrees. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s probably off a few degrees, but it’s close enough,” said his dad. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Then again, if the state of things has really devolved to such a degree, my water must be worth more than ever. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z To say that the lithosphere floats on top of the asthenosphere suggests a degree of easy buoyancy that isn’t quite right. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The weather that day, given the time of year and the fact that the temperature only two days earlier had been two degrees above zero, was remarkable. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z And Glenn had just received his degree from Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Some of the men prepared to jump as the ship leaned onto its side, but Endurance came to rest at an angle of thirty degrees to port. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z But when he sat alone in the crowd, and watched the fresh-faced boys getting their degrees, he knew it had been a mistake to come. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The uneasiness precipitated by the mere thought of such public performance disordered my nerves to a great degree, and I felt fearful of most everything. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For me, fighting is just a way to kill time until I get my medical degree and begin my residency. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He was to give a presentation on ventilation, a great honor for a man without an engineering degree. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I had an aunt who was also a teacher and she encouraged me to get an education degree. So that’s what I did, and now...” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z In the revised form the phosphate atoms were twisted 45 degrees, thereby allowing a different group of oxygen atoms to form a hydrogen bond. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She was determined to complete her master’s degree. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z People also recalled, though this point was discussed at considerable length, that he had returned home without a degree, and that he had, in some undefinable way, changed. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I do not know if my head is correct,” she said, and pressed the back of her hand to her forehead, in the way that one checks the degree of a fever. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z If anything, they came with more experience than the white women applicants, with many years of teaching experience on top of math or science degrees. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “A fancy fortune-teller with a bunch of college degrees. He uses science and computers to predict the future. He can tell you what’s going to happen in ten, twenty years.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The standard was “simple negligence,” as the law puts it: “a failure to exercise a degree of care that a reasonable and prudent individual would exercise under the same or similar circumstances.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As temperatures soared over 100 degrees, scientists and soldiers moved into tents at the test site. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The form you choose depends on the degree of possibility and can radically change your meaning. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But really what he was planning all along was to let her study for five whole years only to render that degree useless in the end. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As it happens, fewer than 30 percent of Head Start teachers have even a bachelor’s degree. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But mother said it would have to happen after she was finished taking graduate degree courses at the University of Arkansas. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As massive as a twelve- story building, it loomed over our heads, leaning 30 degrees past vertical. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In the end it can be said with some degree of certainty that Prohibition failed for two overriding reasons. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Presently I stood within that clean, bright kitchen—on the very hearth—trembling, sickening; conscious of an aspect in the last degree ghastly, wild, and weather-beaten. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They sailed in November 1676, with Halley, now just past his twentieth birthday, abandoning his degree studies. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z One of the attendants was washing the sea-lion manure off the middle platform of the pool, and at least he was able to do that with a certain degree of proficiency. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z There would be no college education, no bachelor’s degree, nothing, just a rabbinic ordination. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, it was remarkable that Hall was even alive after spending a night without shelter or oxygen at 28,700 feet in hurricane-force winds and windchill of one hundred degrees below zero. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Miss Hilly got a big fur around her neck even though it’s sixty degrees outside. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Being a night game in the spring, it was just perfect Texas weather, 80 degrees or so. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Isa set the oven to four hundred degrees, shoved the roasting pan inside, and let the oven door bang closed. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z We also know that it reverses itself every 500,000 years or so on average, though that average hides a huge degree of unpredictability. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But since none of us are alike and are all plagued by varying degrees of modesty, each member of the family has selected a different place to wash. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Ninety percent of the As graduated from college and among them had earned 98 graduate degrees. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I earned a master’s degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s what you call a basal thermometer. It reads the temperature down to a tenth of a degree.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When she was an upperclassman, one of Dorothy’s professors at Wilberforce recommended her for graduate study in mathematics at Howard University, in what would be the inaugural class for a master’s degree in the subject. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And my family and friends all thought I was crazy for focusing so much on fencing when I had a degree from one of the nation’s top universities. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Without a degree, Jesse would likely remain in a cubicle in an office tower, fixing and maintaining the computers of people who didn’t like them but needed them. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even on the back porch, the Avery Lumber Company temperature dial rises from 89 to 96 to a nice round 100 degrees. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The characteristic had surfaced, to a greater or lesser degree, in nearly every horse to descend from his great-grandsire, Hastings, a thousand-pound misanthrope for the ages. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In the building itself, there was a degree of order because there were teachers around. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z What good was a degree in German literature going to do me? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z At the same time, I swivel my hoverboard so sharply to my left that I spin 180 degrees. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Marian stayed on at Marianna for Marian Anderson received some fifty honorary degrees, beginning with her doctorate of music from Howard University in 1938. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z This was, in large degree, because he knew how to march and had other military training that could keep us out of trouble. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This woman, who is white and everything opposite of my mom, with her college degree and good-paying job. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Several of them held university degrees, which was extremely rare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The degree of detail mystified the police, as did the print’s resilience. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He saw right away that he and Eric needed college degrees to avoid dead-end jobs in taller buildings. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We spent nineteen days in the infirmary, swallowing a variety of specialized poisons, since we had intestinal parasites, fungus growing on our feet and forearms, and more than the usual degree of malaria. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day the temperature soared toward 100 degrees Fahrenheit or more, and dry winds blanketed the camp with a fine, red dust that covered the ground like snow. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In particular, they shaped the world around us to a much larger degree than most people realise. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington also advised blacks to spurn higher education, ridiculing degrees in Greek, Latin, and law as “ornamental gewgaws” and stressing the sufficiency of industrial education for his people. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Our house never did burst into flames, but the thermometer on the patio, hanging there in the direct sun, did climb to over a hundred degrees. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It took a certain degree of agility, and she was eighty years old, weakened by staying awake for twenty-four hours while floating near her ceiling, thinking only that she might drown in her own home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The theory predicted that light reaching the Earth from distant stars would be bent by the gravitational field of the sun to a much greater degree than was predicted by classical Newtonian physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As the oar came to his chest, and with his back inclined about fifteen degrees toward the bow, he reached the full extent of his “layback.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “It’s only eighty-five degrees and we live a block from the ocean. But thanks.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “There is no necessity for my calling this morning,” said the young man; “another day would do as well; but there was that degree of acquaintance at Weymouth which—” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “Though I was not certain to what degree you were knowingly involved.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They were, to a degree that would have been fascinating in less trying circumstances, stupid, obnoxious, cheerfully but astonishingly self-absorbed, and not remotely acquainted with trail etiquette. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In fact, there were more black men in the state’s correctional facilities that year just on drug charges than the total number of black men enrolled in undergraduate degree programs in state universities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "If you maintain a C average, you can stay in school and get your degree," he asserted. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Her teeth chattered as if she was cold although the temperature that night was not due to drop below fifteen degrees. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “Being my friend’s, I have no right to expose it in any degree to the public eye, but perhaps you may not dislike looking at it.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z An incubator is set way too high at thirty-seven degrees Celsius, which makes no sense for a defoliant to kill Sagan’s plant life for terra-forming. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The first is that people in the past do, to a considerable degree, understand what is going on and react intelligently in response to it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Blackwell came from a progressive family full of strong women, including his sister Elizabeth, the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Well, by definition, i2 = –1—a point whose angle is 180 degrees from the x-axis; the angle has doubled. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I do that, it’ll be better than any good job a college degree could give me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z You don’t need a degree in economics to see that wages are too low and rents too high. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Order it for instance, to direct agricultural activity on the basis of an average July temperature in Iowa of 57 degrees Fahrenheit. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Hence archaeology in Japan is supported by astronomically large budgets and draws public attention to a degree inconceivable anywhere else in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Oh God, it must be fifteen degrees hotter in the kitchen than it is in the dining room!” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z They downplayed the event to such a degree that the day carried on as usual, though Lazlo felt as though he’d left “usual” behind forever. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The flaming exhausts on my hoverboard turn ninety degrees—I’m shot forward like a bullet from a gun. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z These townsmen enjoyed a degree of freedom that was unknown to their country cousins. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Somehow Alex had thought heaven would always be at seventy-six degrees. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Then I turned the oven on to preheat to 350 degrees and started on my vanilla cupcake recipe. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He suffered, in the words of one of his few biographers, from shyness to a "degree bordering on disease." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She assured her mother that she would return home to finish her doctoral degree after the trial. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Upon my honour,” said he very seriously, “it does not. It is not in the smallest degree connected with any human being of the name of Knightley.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z His scribbled knots of lines are measured in leagues and compass degrees with painstaking detail. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The men installed a more powerful burner that, once ignited, heated the kiln to three thousand degrees Fahrenheit. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My mom wanted to order sushi, but my grandfather said the person who has the most degrees should get to choose. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z The waiting room was too small and about a million degrees too hot. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z His three daughters were among the first women in Japan to receive university degrees. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex raised his head ten degrees for a quarter second to say yes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Wayne answered patiently, “If you cover ’em with ice, their temperature will never drop below thirty-two degrees. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The air temperature in the building had soared beyond ninety degrees, and the place had turned steamy, odorous, alive with monkey calls. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But Outside magazine and Outside Online are autonomous to such a degree that I didn’t even know Outside Online had sent a correspondent to Everest until I arrived at Base Camp. third attempt on Everest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z And then, by degrees, he progressed along the route to the bedroom. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z How the paranoia and fundamentalism were carving up my life, how they were taking from me the people I cared about and leaving only degrees and certificates—an air of respectability—in their place. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And of course they all got brown woollen socks knitted by yours truly, displaying various degrees of competence. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Stupid, because even though it's the warmest part of the day and it's sunny, the temperature's only about 42 degrees. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My circulatory system was getting messed up too, because even though it was a hundred-plus degrees in that boat my feet were cold. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z On and on it went like that, repacking dirt, hauling tires— we battled against the ever-dropping temperature: thirty degrees, twenty-eight degrees, twenty-six degrees. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The clock on the bank across the street says it's 4:28, 58 degrees. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The digital thermometer on the dashboard reads ninety-eight degrees. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Moore’s salary, with twenty years’ experience and a master’s degree, was $32,000. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, Crazy Horse was the biggest reason the Lakota and Cheyenne won the battle. December twenty-first, 1866, was the start of winter. The temperature that day was thirty degrees below zero.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z It hardly requires an advanced degree in molecular biology, philosophy, or history to note that the convergence of these two events is like a headlong sprint into an abyss. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This situation was a complete turning of the tables between officer and inmate— payback time to the highest degree. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Chris submitted to Walt’s authority through high school and college to a surprising degree, but the boy raged inwardly all the while. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The temperature in Des Moines was eighty-one degrees, and the time was five thirty-five, and “All you on the road, drive extra careful now on this fine Fourth of July.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She was glad she’d worn a blouse and poodle skirt—it was almost eighty degrees outside, much too hot for the jeans she’d originally planned to wear. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z If some drug dealer hadn’t sold my mom her first hit, she could’ve gotten her degree already and would have a good job. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The clues here are the so-called ‘flattened’ degrees of the musical ladder, or scale, at the third and seventh positions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It put her on equal footing with the other female supervisors and—theoretically, at least—with men of the same rating, and it afforded her a degree of center-wide visibility. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It’s true that every writer must calibrate the degree of specialization in her language against her best guess of the audience’s familiarity with the topic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Appreciating the finer things in life, he no doubt enjoyed being surrounded by the degree of extravagance that Cleopatra took for granted. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z It’s about sixty degrees today—feels good out. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “But believe me, being another guy with another NYU undergrad degree in acting, it’s like there’s a zillion of us actors here.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z We spread the county map on the ground and lay a grass blade from our stream location across the page at 80 degrees. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He would sail a line at 250 degrees, west into the Pacific, a line west for Owen into the night. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A former navy officer was working on his B.S. degree in special education when he saw Luke’s listing on Florida’s adoption website. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But he thought that their regular circular shape implied such a degree of order that only intelligent life could explain them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was haunted by what he did not have—a postgraduate degree, an upper-middle-class life—and so his affected words became his armor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And that is definitely premeditated first- degree murder as far as I’m concerned. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He had taken a degree in law and was happy to have forgotten the whole experience. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z My pants were made out of canvas and too big by several degrees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Instead I was majoring in hustling, something no university would give me a degree for. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I hadn’t yet tracked the degrees they must have earned to gain access to the tall corporate castles lining Van Buren. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As Emma and I waited for everyone to climb down, the cold crept into me, degree by degree. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Bedrock lay 125 feet below grade, too deep for workers to reach with any degree of economy or safety using the construction methods available in the 1880s. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Many people like him plan to return to get their degrees, even if few actually do. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z After he finished his degree in 1914, he stayed at Cornell doing advanced research in the Department of Plant Breeding. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He was a few credits short of a degree, but he had all of 1941 to make them up. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Dewey, for example, found it difficult to understand “how two individuals could reach the same degree of rage, the kind of psychopathic rage it took to commit such a crime.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Mid-morning, it was at least ninety-five degrees, the air leaden with humidity. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The pews were decrepit, the bills were once so in arrears the electricity was nearly turned off, and the padre hadn’t installed air-conditioning, despite summer temperatures that reach 120 degrees. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It was tilted at about 2 5 degrees, so that if I were lucky I’d find the helical reflections. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z His ostensible reason, however, was to ask whether Mr. Woodhouse’s party could be made up in the evening without him, or whether he should be in the smallest degree necessary at Hartfield. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z The assistants are graduate students who help Dr. Zamborska’s research while they study for advanced degrees. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not the one who cranked the oven to five hundred degrees!” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I submit to you, the jurors in this case, that you, too, would have had a degree of nervousness. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Mendel applied to the University of Vienna to pursue a degree in the natural sciences. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The more I think about it, the stranger it seems that Olga went to this school for years and never seemed close to getting a degree. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “He was wandering around the desert, in a hundred and twenty degrees, in full Greek armor, babbling about string.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He didn’t care about this crazy god or his snake-powered chariot or his online degree program. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But once a science establishes itself it becomes, to a remarkable degree, autonomous, immune to influence from other fields. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By the autumn almost every animal on the farm was literate in some degree. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z ‘There were no scientists in Stuart England,’ we are told, ‘and all the men we have grouped together under that heading were in their varying degrees dilettantes.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She kept one hand on my arm and the other flat on my back as I swung 360 degrees around the bar. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z With the women strapped to tilt tables with their heads angled down at 65 degrees, a cardiologist checked their heart functions as an electrocardiogram recorded information every five minutes. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, the world down there was far warmer than anyone had expected, with a temperature at 10,000 meters of 180 degrees centigrade, nearly twice the forecasted level. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Many of the students already had advanced degrees or had worked as paralegals with prestigious law firms. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z To a large degree, they saw him as selfish and undisciplined and utterly undedicated to the great cause of Mojo. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She begins to shiver violently, the house instantly feeling twenty degrees colder. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z By the height of the day, temperatures would soar to ninety-six degrees—fourteen degrees above normal. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z These causes do not operate singly, and as a rule all four of them are present in some degree. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z While pondering the matter, a lightning uppercut to my jaw spun me 180 degrees. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She accepted, with the proviso that the wedding take place in the spring, after she received her degree. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It would be like asking a man for his university degree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They can be spun, stretched and shaped with a surprising degree of freedom. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Its president said that the group was determined “to fulfill to the highest degree our obligation to the public.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The victor tributes from 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 11 had varying degrees of knowledge about it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z As for the learning itself, I figured you didn’t need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Everything had been strewn on the floor—the porcelain donkey, our framed law degrees, the seashells Manolo and I had found on Morro Beach. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “But, Rishi, there are many different types of engineering degrees,” he said finally, a little wondrously. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In some studies, students who have a high degree of synchrony with their teachers are happier, more enthused, interested, and easygoing. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He is looking forward to having the money a medical degree can bring, and especially to putting his children through college without the scholarships and part-time jobs he needed. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He had earned a master’s degree in applied sciences, and he taught physics and chemistry during the weekdays at the all-black George Washington Carver High School in North Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I have a master’s degree. I’m too qualified to work at a register. And for what, seven bucks an hour?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “I mean, it takes four years to get a college degree, right?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z No. If she were past twenty-five, she might be permitted to enter as a special student and take courses without being a candidate for a degree. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I was proud to have achieved my B.A., but I also knew that the degree itself was neither a talisman nor a passport to easy success. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The eastern areas where this program was carried out now enjoy a high degree of natural protection from the beetle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He used the money that he made to pay bills while my mother was in school getting her social work degree. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z In fact, both Francis and I had the impression that the most satisfactory angle of rotation between two adjacent bases was between 30 and 40 degrees. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “I’m saying hurry up and finish your degree.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He was a degree or two from erupting, but I didn't care. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Speaking to the same publication, Bobby Rush said, “He went to Harvard and became an educated fool. We’re not impressed with these folks with these eastern elite degrees.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Uncle Jack, I thought I’d gone through all that being- disillusioned-about-your-parents stuff when I took my bachelor’s degree, but there’s something—” Her uncle began fidgeting with his coat pockets. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Those of us who have reached the second degree wear it like that,” said Eric. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She spent eight years in college without finishing the five-year undergraduate course and taking her degree. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When she had been pregnant, she had felt like everything was twenty degrees hotter than it was, but now she just always felt cold. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Like I swear the temperature in the car has gone up ten degrees. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z His mother is a housewife who will eventually go back to college and earn a bachelor’s degree in education. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Tyler’s the Surfer Dude: board shorts and a tank top even though it’s only fifty degrees out. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z When the rays of the sun and her magnetic sense lined her up with eighty degrees longitude, she was ready to fly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Both she and I gained a certain degree of respect from our peers because we knew what dead people looked like. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seriously, yes. But they marry earlier and earlier these days. What is the use of a degree, they ask me, when we cannot find a job after graduation?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “First, there is a high degree of openly expressed concern about the practice of racism in the community. I mean by this that there is a restlessness which has a healthiness about it.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The FBI discovered that Glitts had advanced degrees from the Sorbonne in Paris and from Princeton University. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “If I had inclined my head some few degrees ...,” she said. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z So did people making over $50,000 but with no college degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I get out of the car because I feel like its eighty thousand degrees and I need the fresh air to stop my head from spinning. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z At one point in the evening, I was introduced to Michael Harmel, who I was told had a master’s degree in English from Rhodes University. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To a greater or lesser degree, most members of the reporting team performed similar feats of tedious investigation before finding characters who would personify the statistical trends. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “You’ve got it easy—you have all your physical functions working properly. You never have to struggle just to be understood. You think you’re smart because you have a medical degree?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Graduation was ninety-eight humid degrees, the sort of day when even the rare breeze feels like the fond approach of a hairy, panting animal. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The temperature climbs to 100 degrees—cool compared with the highs of 112 to 118 the week before, which had partially melted the asphalt on Interstate 35. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z But the more I think of it, the more I think to hell with more degrees for you. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z It certainly led to a degree of overinvestment, putting it mildly. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Indoors, where the temperature is usually ten degrees cooler, well-groomed girls in starched shirts and pleated skirts perch on tall stools behind glass stalls displaying gold and silver jewelry. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Otherwise you could tilt toward that depending on the degree of restrictiveness, that is, the degree to which the meaning of the sentence critically depends on the relative clause. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Alfred Carter Jr., Deborah’s son, is in prison, serving a thirty-year sentence for robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon, and first- degree assault with a handgun. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He’d written it over many days in varying degrees of consciousness. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z No doubt I should have been miserable whomsoever she had favoured; but a worthier object would have caused me a different kind and degree of distress. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z My grandfather lacked the necessary classics degree; he hadn’t even graduated from university. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Around noon the peregrine eggs reached seventy degrees. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When you are organized to apply knowledge, set up targets, produce a usable product, you require a high degree of certainty from the outset. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z By degrees he learned to enjoy these encounters, though his indifference always appeared more studied than hers and he was always anxious, in a barely concealed way, to meet her gaze. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z All you need is a tube to look through, a string, a weight, and something with degree markings. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This degree of fraud can have him thrown in jail for a minimum of twenty years and blacklisted from working pretty much anywhere ever again. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The Christian Union is the brainchild of forty-year-old Matt Bennett, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Cornell and later directed the Campus Crusade for Christ at Princeton. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z After Parker finished his military service, he used the GI Bill to earn a degree in civil engineering from the Colorado School of Mines—as far from the South as he could get. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The country dances I found pleasant in the highest degree; the minuets too pretty for my taste, and dry. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Nothing less than depriving him of life or liberty will secure peace to Virginia, as motives of resentment actuate his conduct to a degree equal to the total destruction of the Colony…. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Now, there are 60 minutes of arc in an angular degree, and 90 degrees, a right angle, from the horizon to the zenith. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In later years he would brag to us that he “went to law school” and imply that he held some kind of degree from a northern university. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only later and by degrees that they had seemed to take on significance. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It overtakes you literally by degrees as your body temperature falls and your natural responses grow sluggish and disordered. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Isolated but vivid tragedies involving a few people should not blind us to the fact that myriad prosaic activities may involve a much higher degree of risk. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “The attempt to hold you in any degree responsible or censurable for the loss of life is an outrage,” wrote Dion Geraldine, his construction superintendent at the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But that could just be me and the dark, slow-churning vortex that’s always there, in me and around me, to some degree. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z For a week now it’s been a hundred degrees and ninety-nine percent humidity. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We’re less than a half mile from the National Institutes of Health, and my zip code has one of the highest concentrations of graduate degrees per capita in the United States. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He's not back to normal, but it's come down a few degrees. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z You can get very close; thanks to laser cooling, physicists can chill atoms to a few millionths of a degree above the ultimate coldness. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And an expert’s incentives may shift 180 degrees, depending on the situation. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Murder in the first degree—premeditated homicide—is the most serious charge tried in our criminal courts. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured out that each angle has to be about 51 degrees to have seven equal pie pieces. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z He told me that it didn’t matter about my lack of experience or my lack of a degree. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z But by degrees the flood of music drove all speculations out of his mind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Ms. Platt made herself my partner, the whole time saying things like “Bend the elbow forty-five degrees, straighten that leg, bigger step.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Punished for being in a different circle at Cambridge, for not having a charlady for a mother; mocked for her poor degree—not that they actually awarded degrees to women anyway. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I check the weather online and it’s eighty degrees in Puerto Rico right now. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Although Regina had spent six years studying to be a physician, she left before completing her degree, took the baby to Paris, and settled there, working as a teacher of English. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z However, the surface of the planet is a scorching 467 degrees Celsius, the ground is barren and rocky, and clouds of sulfuric acid roam the atmosphere. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I was pleased that the regent would now have a member of his clan with a university degree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With the advent of quantum mechanics, we have come to recognize that events cannot be predicted with complete accuracy but that there is always a degree of uncertainty. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The difference was, because of their education and fancy degrees, they could afford to pay money to contribute to their cause. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, during the day, I got an associate’s degree from Onondaga Community College and began work on a degree in public policy at Syracuse University. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But the hidden interior of the Sun, where sunlight is being generated, is at 40 million degrees. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When I returned to Johannesburg at the beginning of 1943,1 enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand for an LL.B., a bachelor of laws degree, the preparatory academic training for a lawyer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their heads baked in their helmets as temperatures soared over one hundred degrees. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Again she was reminded of San Francisco, where you could walk from one neighborhood to the next and the temperature might drop ten degrees. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The degree to which we are all involved in the control of the earth’s life is just beginning to dawn on most of us, and it means another revolution for human thought. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Milky Way, a vast celestial river in Andean cosmology, crosses the Peruvian sky at an angle of about twenty-eight degrees to the earth’s orbit. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He checked the compass and saw that he was sailing just south of west—close to 250 degrees—and he mentally noted the direction. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In the centigrade scale, zero degrees is the freezing point of water. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The whole birthing center felt tropically humid, even though it was forty degrees outside. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The temperature in the house seems to have dropped twenty degrees in a matter of seconds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It was about 99.5 degrees in the morning, went up to 101 in the middle of the day, and fell back to 99.5 in the evening. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z On November 12, the temperature soared to thirty-five degrees Fahrenheit, and several men took advantage of the warmth to take a wash in the snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z When the time came, I applied to American universities to take my degree. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Professional women, too, all three of them, with degrees on the wall! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Thucydides reported, enveloped the city in “a great degree of lawlessness.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Despite McClellan’s lack of skills or education beyond the twelfth grade, there was good reason to believe that the aluminum factory could get him into middle-class security quicker than a bachelor’s degree could, he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z By the start of my senior year, I have taken so many sociology classes, I am only a few credits shy of a degree. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest were out working or still studying toward the two-year degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Most infectious diseases have now been brought under a reasonable degree of control and some have been practically eliminated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It had not occurred to him that doors wouldn’t just open for a man with a college degree. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z After I got the degree, Hugo and I went back to Gombe together. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z One second after the big bang, it would have fallen to about ten thousand million degrees. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom’s a medical technician, but she just got her nursing degree by going to school at night. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z None of that would have been so daunting if the worst thing in the world was not about to happen: Ms. Sandnes was leaving to get her master’s degree in social work! Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It gives me further pleasure to acquaint you that this degree was unanimously voted by the Corporation of the University, and unanimously confirmed by the Overseers.... Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Many judged themselves and their peers on the degree of control they were able to maintain over inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was going to hit 95 degrees today. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z But, amazingly, the pig stopped dead in its tracks, turned ninety degrees, and ran. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Gaur was an example of a man without a B.A. who seemed infinitely better educated than the fellows who left Fort Hare with glittering degrees. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His head was twisted forty-five degrees to the right. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z And at ten-meter resolution, the degree to which the landscape has been reworked first really becomes evident. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was ten in the morning and pushing ninety degrees. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She intended to put her degree to use as a teacher, of course; there were practically as many teachers in her family as there were Hampton Institute graduates. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Even the best officers, he said, had to scramble around to put out fires; it was just a question of degrees. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The temperature in the room has dropped twenty degrees. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z But those broad gains mask the fact that poor and working-class students have nevertheless been falling behind; for them, not having a degree remains the norm. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “You can get you a good job. Wait till they see a boy wit!I a master’s degree.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Therefore the fourth degree of the Lydian mode is raised one half step. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z After getting three college degrees and spending some time traveling, she will end up teaching social studies in middle school. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z But for me, the answer was that Masonry, actually, is only thiity-three degrees of the religion of Islam, which is the lull projection, forever denied to Masons, although they know it exists. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He reaches the end of the street, scribbles something on a pad, turns one hundred and eighty degrees, and walks back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Claytor had taken an honors math degree from Howard University in 1929 and, like Dorothy Vaughan, had received an offer to join the inaugural class of the school’s math graduate program. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z His viewpoint had suddenly shifted a few degrees. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The flattening of these degrees - that is, the slight lowering in pitch - betrays the origin of Blues melodies in older, modal key-families. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was January 15 and the thermometer read 41 degrees F. There was no snow on the ground. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Even as I was receiving my degree, I realized that hardly anything I had learned at university seemed relevant in my new environment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfit for any work other than the making of red velvet roses, she had a hard time finding employment befitting her degree. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z So did I change, and become by degrees, without knowing, a soldier. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Sometimes it came in degrees, like the cold; sometimes you were very brave up to a point and then beyond that point you were not so brave. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Extending the turn-around times may have been influenced to some degree by the rivalry between Fischer and Hall. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The thermometer dipped to minus five degrees Fahrenheit. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The numbers glowed only faintly in the darkness, but he could see them, and he was still holding at 250 degrees. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Thirty- two degrees won’t kill a tree; thirty-one degrees will, if it stays that cold long enough.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew from personal experience how crime existed only to the degree that the law cooperated with it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “John, this is Mr. Bowditch—the man I was telling you about! The man who got a degree from Harvard without ever setting foot in a classroom!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Two days after the storm, Frightful came down in a Florida sable palm and noted her global position again— eighty degrees longitude. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z To that end, I was studying at night with UNISA, short for the University of South Africa, a respected educational institution that offered credits and degrees by correspondence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After receiving his undergraduate diploma, Walt took a job with Hughes Aircraft, which sent him to Tucson for three years, where he earned a master’s degree in antenna theory at the University of Arizona. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I estimate the water temperature to be approximately four degrees Centigrade at this time of year. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She whispered a spell to keep the milk from spoiling and tried to ignore the degree to which the spell drained her energies and spirits. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The Pluto outfit was top-heavy and hard to navigate, and the temperature inside was about 105 degrees. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z They’d mastered the techniques of cell culture and simplified them to such a degree that, as one researcher put it, they’d “made it possible for even the rank amateur to grow a few cultures.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was a hair short of 90 in the city, but when they got off the ferry, they found the stadium much hotter, probably far over 100 degrees. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I was impressed with his degree, but when I met him, I thought to myself, “This chap has an M.A. and he is not even wearing a tie!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Although this technique is rather dubious mathematically, it does seem to work in practice, and has been used with these theories to make predictions that agree with observations to an extraordinary degree of accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The hallway was at least twenty degrees cooler than the room. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In February, it’ll be fifteen degrees and you be wishing spring would come on, and the next day it’s ninety degrees for the next nine months. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Coloured groups at the time were more concerned about the race classification and job reservation, issues that did not affect Africans and Indians to the same degree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am sorry, very sorry, but a wand that has suffered this degree of damage cannot be repaired by any means that I know of.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It unfolds as a bunch of little segments that won't open beyond 180 degrees, so it remains flat. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’ll take her six or seven years to get her law degree,” he said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It's at least five degrees colder now, and the breeze has shifted. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Victor was screaming at it, “Twenty-four degrees! Twenty-four degrees!” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Using some vertically plumb object continued . at Alexandria on the day of the solstice, he measured angle a, and therefore angle P, at 7.2 degrees. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Venus didn’t have any moons or satellites or even a magnetic field, but it did have an atmosphere sort of similar to Earth’s, except it was super- hot—about five hundred degrees or more. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It was not even ten in the morning and the temperature was over ninety degrees. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The feeling of resentment and the balked longing for some kind of fulfilment and exultation—in degrees more or less intense and in actions more or less conscious—stalk day by day through this land. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But they called her as soon as we got to the hospital, and when she got there, she gave me the third degree right there in front of everybody. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z From the day she left I was no longer the same: with her was gone every settled feeling, every association that had made Lowood in some degree a home to me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He got his law degree and set up a practice on Court Street in downtown Brooklyn. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Mr. Julian told Jus he “calmly explained the meaning of civil disobedience'’ before removing his framed degrees from the wall. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It had never lessened the pain, not one degree. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My master's degree in botany makes me pretty sure plants need wet dirt to grow in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z My body was like a shuttle reentering the Earth’s atmosphere, hitting against particles of air and facing temperatures of three thousand degrees Fahrenheit. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Instead, improvisation can be taught to some degree in that it requires a set of tools and prior experiences from which to draw. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z My mom works in the mornings and then goes to Oklahoma University at night to get another master’s degree. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “I too will be putting my newly acquired degree to good use. I’m moving to Port Harcourt to manage Daddy’s businesses there.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There’s an old joke, told in Simon Singh’s excellent book Fermat’s Last Theorem, that gives a sense of the different degree of rigor of mathematical proof. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Despite the wild ride, he managed to leave town with a great degree of dignity, holding his head high and his back stiff as he pushed the bike along the path. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She was always on to me to learn shorthand after college, so I'd have a practical skill as well as a college degree. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “One side is seven feet. Another side, three feet. One angle is sixty degrees. How long is the other side?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Outside, it was only a few degrees warmer than it had been in the room. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z This time it wasn’t a paramedic but a real medical specialist with degrees in psychology and abnormal spirit possession. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Around the room, the kids from the jazz ensemble and choir stood up with varying degrees of willingness and shyness. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z It was only the middle of April, and the water temperature probably wasn’t even fifty degrees yet. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z At the start of January 1893 the weather turned cold and stayed cold, the temperature falling to twenty degrees below zero. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mom liked to say that Dad could talk a blue streak, spinning tales of jobs he’d never had and college degrees he’d never earned. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z With that refreshment I could perhaps regain a degree of energy: without it, it would be difficult to proceed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Africa has smaller areas of tropical rain forest than does Southeast Asia, and no temperate habitats at all beyond latitude 37 degrees. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Warmer than feathers, the bare skin would raise the eggs to seventy degrees Fahrenheit. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A master’s degree can substitute for one year; a doctoral degree can replace all three years. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Francis was looking out the window, “Yesterday it was nearly seventy degrees.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The temperature in the gym sometimes reached 101 degrees and everyone started snapping at each other. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s Thursday, so she’s got classes tonight as she goes after that social work degree—she wants to make sure other people get the help she didn’t back when she was on drugs. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He has graduate degrees from a prestigious university. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The great Dutch painter Jan Vermeer has been called the Sphinx of Delft, for all his paintings have a degree of mystery. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She worked so hard, teaching all day, then studying at night for her master's degree. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As long as the wretched Goodacre was well out of our lives, some degree of pining and sighing might be indulged in strictly as a romantic exercise. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Five days, ninety-five degrees,” he said with a worried shake of the head. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I was realizing that the next phase of my journey would not simply unfold on its own, that my fancy academic degrees weren’t going to automatically lead me to fulfilling work. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was about a zillion degrees below zero. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In Calcutta, before she was married, she was working toward a college degree. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For a moment he felt as if he, too, had betrayed her by having his own plan: to get a postgraduate degree in America, to work in America, to live in America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She wants to go back to school to get a bachelor’s degree, but has neither the time nor the money. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “The very essence of the tomb, as Theodora points out. The cold spot in Borley Rectory only dropped eleven degrees,” he went on complacently. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “Looking back, I wish I had gotten that degree,” Blevins said in his soft-spoken lilt. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The researchers had treated several homes to varying degrees, then encouraged landlords to rent those homes to families with children so they could then monitor the children’s lead levels. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Would that mean that a higher degree of political fragmentation than Europe’s would be even better? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His adrenal gland, by degrees, ceased jumping its several secretions into his bloodstream; his heart slowed to normal, his breathing became less frantic. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “In just six weeks, you can get your bachelor’s degree in the exciting and vibrant career of the future—farming!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z However, their indirect effects, such as small changes in the energy of electron orbits in atoms, can be measured and agree with the theoretical predictions to a remarkable degree of accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But I didn’t know what the third degree was. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z If a bunch of people can jump into icy waters for polar bear plunges in the cold of winter, I see no reason I can’t wear my favorite clothes when it’s ninety degrees outside. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Because of the circumstances, maybe there might be a special degree, an honorary degree.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To a certain degree, if the world is orderly and predictable, it is because we have worked to make it so by developing technologies that give us control over nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I was also paying fees to the University of South Africa in order to complete my degree by correspondence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now the oldest has her pharmacy degree and is helping out the others.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Which is why everybody thought I was three degrees below a moron. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z To some small degree he did succeed in further corroding Ayemenem’s view of working wives. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Clavius was wrong—there are no eccentrics and epicycles—but he was right to claim that he could predict the future movements of the heavenly bodies with a high degree of reliability. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Course we got plenty a smart people in our church with they college degrees. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Just let’s remember we’ve got a first degree murder charge here. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only did his hair tickle, but I was embarrassed, even though he went to school thirty years ago and does have some kind of medical degree. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z In this godforsaken place, I felt disconnected from the climbers around me— emotionally, spiritually, physically—to a degree I hadn’t experienced on any previous expedition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The company hired young blacks with college degrees—nearly always the children of an already elite class. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He turned to the other boys, who were staring at me with varying degrees of interest and curiosity. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She meandered about, hands thrust in her skirt pockets; on her face a sour expression, almost righteous in the degree of its displeasure, appeared. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z In his keynote speech, General Electric research chief W. D. Coolidge lauded Ernest’s “boldness and faith and persistence to a degree rarely matched.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I graduate from university, and discover that there’s nothing much I can do with my degree. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When we compared my videos to those of the elite gymnasts who’d scored higher than I had, it was clear that I needed to push the degree of difficulty in all my events. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He did return in 1995, however, to earn his doctorate degree. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s in the monsoon region; annual rainfall in the coastal areas is about two hundred inches, and the average temperature of those areas is close to ninety degrees. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z That night the temperature had dipped to thirty-one degrees. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Dell finally graduated, on the six-and-a-half-year plan, with a degree in psychology. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z To Fenn, the smallpox historian, the squabble over the number of deaths and the degree of blame obscures something more important. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Seriously? Jamie, what’s wrong? And don’t tell me it’s nothing—I have an honorary degree in trying to keep my feelings a secret.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z As if her presence legitimized whatever was happening between us—though certainly not to the same degree that the general’s would have. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The temperature had dropped a good forty degrees in the night in one of those unpredictable fronts that swept down from the Amarillo plains. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Uh, yeah, your girl raised the bar about a trillion degrees,” I say, stealing a sliver of cheddar from his tray. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z She flew along longitude ninety degrees, the longitude along which the Galapagos Islands lie. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z What a shock, then, when Minerva got handed the law degree but not the license to practice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I wouldn't have to wait till I could apply for a master’s degree, like Mother Lois had. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “That doesn’t even make sense, degrees, trillion...anyway, she’s not my girl,” Isaac says. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Many conversations en route began with “What degree of a dog is that?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The head wave finally passes round the middle a October and we get ourselves a cool fifty degrees. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z What I’m suggesting is a kind of Richter scale which the media could use as a shorthand for indicating degrees of risk. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I’m not sure. You told me to watch for any rise in my temperature and I’m telling you I’m up six tenths of a degree.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z After graduating from Princeton, Bernard worked in banking before pursuing his law degree. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Inquiry was made into the origin of the scourge, and by degrees various facts came out which excited public indignation in a high degree. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Volpe himself doesn’t talk about the parallel, and I don’t know the degree to which he is fully conscious of it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “It’s not too late to go back to school. You could still get a real degree.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z The wind was then blowing from the south-west in the mild degree which in barometrical language is ranked “No. 2: light breeze.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z For the Mercury 7 project, men had to be military test pilots, each with at least 1,500 hours flight experience and a bachelor's degree in engineering. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The Friday of my first week at The Maids is unnaturally hot for Maine in early September—95 degrees, according to the digital time-and-temperature displays offered by banks that we pass. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z After one year of high school, I attended the University of Toronto and took a double-major Bachelor’s degree. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The light around us deepened to dusk and it felt like the temperature dropped ten degrees. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Bando lines up the state map with north and, placing his compass approximately on the swamp creek, turns the housing to 70 degrees, or east by northeast. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z One of Dad's degrees is in electrical engineering. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They both had college degrees and knew no one in the country and spoke little English. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he slung his backpack over his shoulder and nodded down the road and we set off, two miles, and it wasn’t any twenty-one degrees. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z “I have a degree, Freida, but some would question if I am an engineer,” he replied oh so smoothly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was expensive, and my aim in going would have been to get a degree to qualify me for a job as a journalist. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a pair of silver-backed brushes his mother had given him when he was sixteen, engraved with his initials, the abbreviated degree designation of a doctor. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard the rain still beating continuously on the staircase window, and the wind howling in the grove behind the hall; I grew by degrees cold as a stone, and then my courage sank. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z By Alexander’s time, the rise of major philosophical schools, such as the Academy and Lyceum in Athens, began to introduce a degree of conformity on cosmological questions. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Some friends were getting jobs, people who did not have his second-class upper degree and did not speak as well as he did. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z By midday, as temperatures climb to over a hundred degrees, the streets grow quiet again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Today I hear bilingual educators say that children lose a degree of ‘individuality’ by becoming assimilated into public society. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, to my eyes, the appearance of informality had been taken to a faintly ludicrous degree. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I place them in the oven and heat them at 350 degrees for thirty-five minutes until they’re crispy on the outside and soft in the middle. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Salt water freezes at a lower temperature than fresh water, around twenty-seven degrees Fahrenheit, depending on the concentration of salt and other minerals. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I made Bryce twenty-two years old and gave him a brand-new Social Security number, an immaculate credit rating, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It was a brutally cold winter, with temperatures slipping under zero degrees at night. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z At the age of forty- one he started attending Fordham full-time for his law and business degrees. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Robbed of her medical degree in Russia because of the war, she was now determined to acquire a nursing diploma. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But, in the stairwell, I ran right into something even worse than Doctor No-gloves’s nutsack exam and puberty pep talk, if there could be such a degree of miserableness. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He wormed his ship through the ice pack to reach seventy-one degrees south latitude, and then turned north again without ever seeing the land. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The warm air rushed out—the temperature had to stay at around ninety-nine degrees. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s only ten in the morning, but it’s already eighty degrees out—a good day to stay inside. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z "It's not drift. They adjusted course. Instrumentation uplink shows a deliberate 27.812- degree rotation." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Herbie owned no truly warm clothes because, having associated “Southwest” with “desert,” he had figured the temperature would always be hovering around eighty-five degrees. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The touchstone of fraternity was my feeling toward white people, how much hostility I held toward them, what degrees of value and honor I assigned to race. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “But becoming a social worker is your dream. You need a degree for that.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Which is why when my friends and I found one another at dinner each night, it was with some degree of relief. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They have a badge; they have a law degree. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Inauguration Day was bitingly cold, with temperatures never going above freezing and the wind making it feel more like fifteen degrees. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He's starting to exhibit a degree of understanding. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Black people have been made criminals by the War on Drugs to a degree that dwarfs its effect on other racial and ethnic groups, especially whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Once, when a high school teacher asked students to list their goals for the next decade, she wrote, “having a college degree” and “not being married.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Did you know you can get a degree in music? If you had one, you could give lessons, you could direct the church choir. Even Dad won’t argue with that, not much anyway.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Romanian folk dancing? Aristotelian literary criticism? Or perhaps—Mr. Jankowski—you completed a performance degree on the accordion?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She suggested he apply to Job Corps, a U.S. government program that provides vocational training to people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four and that offers the chance to earn a high school degree. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z A university degree, I believed, was a passport not only to community leadership but to financial success. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Holding it with the right degree of intensity, she could pass through a crowded room, or walk beside a solitary traveler, without being seen. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten women made it past the application process—five physicians, three engineers, a scientist, and a test pilot with an engineering degree. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Masters and mistresses in degrees of wickedness, estates of disparate means and ambition. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Louis never minded if his scientific staff had higher degrees or not: The important thing, as far as he was concerned, was that they had knowledge and were hardworking and dedicated. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Later, he was given a scholarship to universities in Indiana and Tennessee, where he earned a degree in medicine. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Shining my headlamp on a dime-store thermometer clipped to the parka I’d been using as a pillow, I saw that the temperature inside the cramped, two-person tent was seven degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I would learn in subsequent years that he had been trained as an industrial engineer, and had actually completed a master’s degree. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z KVNU, a local radio station, reported the temperature at thirty-three degrees. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He had little shame over mooching off his uncle and even less about his useless college degree. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Although my mother—having a master’s degree in psychology and working on her doctorate—is a trained listener, she sometimes over-listens, especially when it comes to me. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is beautiful to look at, it takes a finish well, and it can be polished to a high degree of luster, essential for providing the smooth, friction-free racing bottom a good shell requires. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Maybe fifteen degrees, maybe fourteen, maybe not even that. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Farmer had not only exposed his deepest self to her, but also to some degree changed her life. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z |
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