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poised: having a calm and confident manner and in control of your feelings and behavior

distinctly: in a way that is clearly noticeable or very definite

Currier House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses of Harvard College.

nerdy: boring, stupid and not fashionable

physicality: the quality of being full of energy and force

crimson: a dark red color

exuberance: the quality of being full of energy, excitement and happiness

archaic: old and no longer used

Kent Evans was Bill Gates’s close childhood best friend and bright computer peer at Lakeside School in Seattle. He likely would have been a co-founder of Microsoft alongside Gates and Paul Allen, but his life was tragically cut short at age 17 in a 1972 mountaineering accident.

hash out: to discuss something carefully and completely in order to reach an agreement or decide something

General Electric (GE) is a historic American multinational conglomerate that completed a multi-year split into three independent, publicly traded companies focused on aerospace, energy, and healthcare.

underbid: to offer to do work or provide a service for a lower price than someone else

pan out: (informal) (of events or a situation) to develop in a particular way

oversight: the fact of making a mistake because you forget to do something or you do not notice something

grouse: to complain about somebody/something in a way that other people find annoying

incessantly: without stopping

factor into: to include a particular fact or situation when you are thinking about or planning something

blowup: an occasion when somebody suddenly becomes angry

Fortran is a third-generation, compiled, imperative programming language designed for numeric computation and scientific computing.

nail someone down: to make someone give you exact details or a firm decision about something

trample: to step heavily on somebody/something so that you damage or harm them/it with your feet

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), trading as Digital, was a major American computer company founded in 1957 by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson. It pioneered the minicomputer industry with the PDP and VAX series before being acquired by Compaq in 1998.

prowess: great skill at doing something

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