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Word: downto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freshman shortstop MarkMager, who dropped downto eighth in the order for both games ofSaturday's doubleheader, was 3-for-3 with threeruns scored...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Wins Rolfe, Draws Tigers | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...session ofthe Centennial conference. Sitting on a podiumalongside Saul Bellow, Henry Louis Gates and DerekWalcott, and Hemingway aficionados, Prose did notblink at asserting the necessity of the totallyinconceivable: "You have to ignore the content"she counseled, "and focus on the style." Not onlyhas Hemingway's valuable work been whittled downto a novel and some stories, but one is obligatedeven to sift away the bulk of those works,searching for what is valuable in the style alone...

Author: By Joshua Perry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Who's Afraid of Mr. Hemingway? | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...skyhook thatwill put a halt to the evolutionary explanation ofhuman capabilities. The nature of Dennett'sdisagreement with his foes is often obscure, andthere is such a flurry of names and citations thatthe inattentive reader will probably begin to justtake Dennett's word for it. What it all comes downto is that Dennett sees Darwin's dangerousidea--that everything from consciousness to ethicscan be explained by the function of naturalselection over time--as a "universal acid," eatingaway all attempts to limit its scope...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Book Champions Theory of Evolution | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...Most of the first matches were against peoplethat I knew that I was pretty confident that Icould beat," van Leeuwen said. "When it got downto the final eight, though, and I was reallygetting tired, I didn't know what would happen...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Fencer Wins U.S. Championship | 3/19/1994 | See Source »

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