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Word: discernible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...level of characterization too, the untaxing joy of recognition is present. The heroes and villains are tricky to discern because everyone is beautiful, but I would hazard that the former are the sensitive ones while the latter are the bitches. I win points for preceding that, take away her glasses and overalls and that ridiculous wig weighing her down her entire comportment, Laney Boggs (Rachael Leigh Cook), the single-minded and paint smattered and object of gamble will bloom into "all that...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: She's All That, But He's Even More | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

Maybe it shouldn't feel that way to me or to anybody else. Maybe I should have stepped back and become enraged or entertained or at least a libertarian. Yet it seems that from even a little distance, the picture is pretty easy to discern: the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton is as interesting to Americans as is Major League Soccer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Living Foolishly | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...pausing to rip off the head of the reporter who'd gone peeking into his locker. What kind of a modern athlete would fail to do that? As for "andro," whatever else it does, it can't help a player's timing, his hand-eye coordination, his ability to discern a slider from a splitter. But even if andro improved his power by an unlikely, oh, 5%, then instead of 70 home runs, McGwire this year would have hit... maybe 67. Take 5% off a 450-ft. missile, and you've got a 427.5-ft. missile--long enough to clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark McGwire': A Mac For All Seasons | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...been located at various sites all over the Middle East. A current scholarly favorite is Lake Sirbonis (now called Sabkhet el Bardowil), a Mediterranean lagoon on the northeastern shore of the Sinai separated from the sea by a narrow land barrier. Critics claim to discern several different accounts within the Bible, depending on which of four ancient versions of the story has been woven into the existing Scripture text. A fragment attributed to the writer called E notes a fairly minor miracle, the providential bogging down of the Egyptian chariot wheels in the mud of the seabed. The fragment called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

Like with all social ills, we struggle to discern the genealogy of this corruption, and we seek an entry point where we can begin to improve a situation. First and foremost, our values develop in our families. But as we grow up, communities play an increasingly large role. These communities--such as the Harvard community--leave an indelible mark on the individuals who leave them...

Author: By David B. Friedland, | Title: Facing the Scars of Final Clubs | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

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