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Word: donee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...language appear in the dictionary. Child's play, apparently. He is more interested in the broader possibilities. "It would be relatively straightforward," he says, "to compile dictionaries for distinct historical periods, to produce something, say, that would present only the vocabulary available to Shakespeare. The same thing could be done with reference to important legal documents, pointing out what the words of the laws actually meant at the time they were written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Scholarly Everest Gets Bigger | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...pursue those who violate protection orders. But perhaps the most important aspect of the Duluth program is that it requires batterers to attend at least six months of counseling classes. A man who misses two meetings risks having to serve up to ten days in jail. Follow-up studies done two years after the program started show that about 80% of the women whose partners went through the program were no longer being battered. "It's made a big difference in our life," says a woman whose boyfriend attended the classes two years ago. "Without that program we would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Beware Of Paper Tigers | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...Harvard, activism is incredibly nebulous and incoherent. We have a huge variety of little tiny groups that don't get together. If you have a general interest in all the groups, you have to go to 28 meetings a week and get nothing done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

...told well-wishers at ribbon-cutting ceremonies of a re-done North last year, changes may well indicate a permanent shift in the balance of popularity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Quad Makes a Comeback | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

...What I think should happen is that in high school libraries, there should be an MIT section and a Harvard section, beautifully done in wood...with a 'Veritas' under it," Vellucci said...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Vellucci Asks Harvard for Books | 3/21/1989 | See Source »

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