My first was against Samuel Thomas, an anthropology graduate student at the University of Oxford who plays in between bouts of working on his thesis.

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Instead of working on his thesis, Keith spent most of two years holed up in the family garage, stripping the body off a Triumph Spitfire and building a new shell from scratch, using foam and 700 pounds of plaster of paris.

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He said investigators were working under the "thesis" that the Daschle letter was the source of contamination among the postal workers.

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The two men described long processes of fabric building that made it sound like they were working on a doctoral thesis in engineering.

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In 2005 we started working together on a joint master thesis in industrial design after four and a half years studying at LTH, the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University in Sweden.

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Buck, a graduate student then working on a photography project in Egypt for his master's thesis, met Maree, a 23-year-old Egyptian veterinary student, in Mahalla.

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