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Word: certain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will play this summer, and if I do well enough to earn a contract, than I might turn pro," Blake said. "I think you only have a certain amount of time to play tennis at this level, and companies are looking for younger and younger talent to catch them at their peak...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshman Phenom Set for Big Time | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...went out intelligently because I wanted to keep on a certain pace," Harte said...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kirkland Tutor Harte Outpaces Thousands | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...Burmese I know are warm and friendly, and I am certain their country is fascinating and beautiful. And when I can be welcomed to Burma by these people, and not the military government, I will be the first to go. At that point, I may be able to grab a Let's Go Burma! to pack in my suitcase. But as long as my travel there would buttress a cruel regime that does not enjoy popular support, I hope never to see a Let's Go guidebook to the country. As long as Burma remains unfree...

Author: By David S. Grewal, | Title: Let's Not Go Myanmar | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...suggesting that everybody greet and act friendly with everybody else, especially those people you just don't like. Anybody who has seen a certain episode of "Seinfeld" knows that saying hello to everybody around is you is completely futile and extremely annoying. It is, after all, everybody's God-given right to be mean...

Author: By Joseph E. Subotnik, | Title: Warm Up That Cold Shoulder | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...would not achieve such delicacy. Similarly, the fiber-by-microscopic-fiber gradations, even within a single thread, that make up the figure's exquisite "shading" would defy a human hand, were it engaged in either the application of acid or a rubbing process. Finally, Adler, a recognized expert on certain molecules found in blood, notes emphatically of the crimson stains and rivulets that ornament the shroud, "The blood is blood, and it came from a man who died a traumatic death." In fact, he says, both chemical analyses and a telltale yellow-green fluorescence under ultraviolet light indicate the presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science And The Shroud | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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