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Word: filters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Radio Shack and other stores sell devices called "ferrite cores" or "filter chokes." These little boxes attach to wires and absorb interference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Offers Its Help to Apleyites | 2/11/1995 | See Source »

Down 4-0, 5-1, 6-3 and 7-4 (the Crimson never had a lead in the game), Harvard continued to battle back from unheard-of odds, even after the sold-out Boston Garden crowd of 14,448 had begun to filter out starting at the end of the first period...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Eagles Soar Above Crimson Icemen | 2/7/1995 | See Source »

...what about the folks on the receiving end of a mail bomb? "That's a tough one," says Vinton Cerf, an MCI executive who helped design the Internet in the late '60s. "If you knew who was sending you the mail, you could install a filter to throw it away. But trying to discard thousands of messages when you don't know where they're coming from just isn't possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror on the Internet | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...without equipment for transfusions cannot rehydrate victims in time. Along the roadways and in the camps it has become hard to tell the sleeping from the dead until the bodies swell up in the tropical sun. Refugees wrap their faces in scarves and rags and surgical masks, hoping to filter the stench from the rotting bodies everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cry the Forsaken Country | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...sink. A heated kitchen cart is wheeled down the corridor, and through a slot in the door Simpson is handed a breakfast of scrambled eggs, potatoes, two slices of wheat bread and coffee brewed in a stainless-steel kitchen vat so wide it uses a bed sheet for a filter. His only utensil is a plastic spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in the Life of Prisoner 4013970 | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

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