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Word: glassed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stretched at least 150 feet across. I felt like an ant entering my colony's hill. The building's misting system--a water and natural chemical mixture to keep the smell down--was turned on and a hazy aura emanated from within. Dapples of light coming through the massive glass skylights illuminated certain areas of the inside den, making the whole place seem magical and somewhat poetic...

Author: By Ariel B. Osceola, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Down in the Dump | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...sense the flyer was silly, even meaningless. Blasphemy is to speak disrespectfully of religion. The dictionary says so. To give it a new meaning is a little like Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking-Glass pretending to Alice that "glory" means "a nice knock-down argument." Pretending that blasphemy is denying one's dreams is as logical as claiming that extortion is a weak cup of tea or that homeopathy is picking up the telephone with one's foot. But of course what the author really meant is that desiring passionately is an infinitely more important thing that being mindful...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: On the Subject of Blasphemy | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...University's top brass is always drawn from the ranks of tenured professors, and so a shortage of tenured women keeps Harvard's glass ceiling in place...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Women Left Off Harvard's Dean List | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

BANKERS They love likely Glass-Steagall repeal. But remember when feds deregulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Does Chicago have the fortitude to keep its cars in the garage? I think so. The last time I was there, literally hundreds of nearly life-size fiber-glass cows, each decorated by a different artist, were displayed on the sidewalks of Michigan Boulevard. Given the traditional cattle sensitivity of Midwestern boosters afraid of having their cities dismissed as cow towns, I told my hosts that a city in Illinois that festoons its most elegant shopping area with bovine creatures is not lacking in the self-confidence department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Tall World, After All | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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