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Word: fixedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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This summer, workers jackhammered through a large section of the roof of the tunnel under Memorial Drive and fixed up the walls with steel reinforcing. They also poured new concrete for the roof, Hawkes says.

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: The Steam Tunnels | 12/4/1993 | See Source »

But the department with which the museum is associated, the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, is more than just archaeology. There are lodged almost all the University's faculty involved in Arab, Jewish, Turkic and Persian history and culture. I can see why an archaeologist fixed on the...

Author: By Martin Peretz, | Title: The Sabotage of The Semitic Museum | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

This last phenomenon is an intensification of an ongoing story. While Freud was winning cadres of acolytes and legions of notional recruits, he and his ideas regularly attracted sharp attacks, often from influential quarters. As early as 1909, philosopher William James observed in a letter that Freud "made on me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assault on Freud | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

Something has happened in the world, and we sense that it is along the lines of an Orwellian Big Brother phenomenon (could it be the television monitor perched near the ceiling, fixed on the characters below?). Ada and Meg (Yvonne Roemer and Calysta Drake) are chief-and assistant-washroom attendants...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: A Brave New World At the Loeb Ex | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

A metal screen fixed over the grates issupposed to prevent such a fire.

Author: By John Wagley, | Title: Holyoke Not a Refuge for Homeless | 11/12/1993 | See Source »

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