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Word: 20s (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tomorrow looks nice--sunny, middle 20s,"Seeley said. "Tuesday there is a chance offlurries late...

Author: By Stephanie P. Wexler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: 16.2-Inch Snowfall Stalls City, Airport | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

Students were held up by six to 12 inches of snow, temperatures in the 20s and winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour in some locations, according to the Associated Press...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Storm Grounds Students' Returns | 1/5/1994 | See Source »

...explained, "is because I couldn't get anybody to play the classical music that I wrote." During a career that spanned three decades, Zappa never pretended or wanted to be anything else. On the first Mothers' album, 1966's Freak Out!, he quoted the maxim of his hero, the '20s avant-gardist Edgard Varese: "The present-day composer refuses to die." They were words he lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Duke of Prunes: Frank Zappa (1940-1993) | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

Friends of De la Uz call him a Dr. Zhivago. He fought underground with Castro's 26th of July movement and in his early 20s went to the Communist Party school in Moscow for grooming. But by 1968 he had lost his zeal and wrote a stinging critique of the party for being undemocratic. He was banished to a railway shop, where he labored in silence until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba Alone | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

...would be easy, seeing all this, to say that the world is moving toward the Raza Cosmica (Cosmic Race), predicted by the Mexican thinker Jose Vasconcelos in the '20s -- a glorious blend of mongrels and mestizos. It may be more relevant to suppose that more and more of the world may come to resemble Hong Kong, a stateless special economic zone full of expats and exiles linked by the lingua franca of English and the global marketplace. Some urbanists already see the world as a grid of 30 or so highly advanced city- regions, or technopoles, all plugged into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Village Finally Arrives | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

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