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Word: dwell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard won't be able to dwell on its achievements of last weekend for long, as it entertains Dartmouth today at Soldier Field and hosts McGill next week...

Author: By Sean Becker, | Title: Undefeated Men's Rugby Club Captures N.E. Championship | 11/1/1991 | See Source »

...following night, after he was declared the series' Most Valuable Player, * Avery got baptized in champagne he was barely old enough to purchase legally. And the Pirates, who carried the curse of being the best National League team for the past two seasons, were left to dwell on the melancholy baseball maxim, "Losing hurts more than winning feels good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Shall Be First | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...this last topic, Woolf waxes bittersweet. She attacks with venomous humor the state of affairs that allows men's colleges to sup off partridges and wine and dwell in marble halls, while women's colleges are unable to afford anything better than beef, water and bricks. Here and elsewhere in the play, Woolf emphasizes that pure intelligence is not enough for women who want to succeed in life. They also must know how to struggle...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Wit and Tedium in Woolf's Room | 9/27/1991 | See Source »

...College's academic offerings on TV are just as sparse. A handful of courses mention the subject, but hardly any dwell on it. The Core Curriculum steers students towards 16th century literature, but offers no courses in the media literacy needed to understand today's information age. Undergrads looking to study TV must turn to the Kennedy School. But even there the thrust is news, not TV as a medium...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein., | Title: Stop the TV-Bashing | 5/17/1991 | See Source »

...pursues her hobby (rock star supreme) and her full-time job (do-it-yourself mythmaker). This is show biz, remember, where image elbows achievement out of the frame. Madonna knows this. She is the most self-aware, perhaps the sanest, of celebrities. So Truth or Dare doesn't dwell on what she has done. We know she has done plenty, done well and, in her AIDS-relief fund raising, done good. Keshishian shows us what Madonna thinks she is -- and what she, driven by her acute instincts and awesome nerve, might next choose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Does Madonna Wanna Be? | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

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