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Word: heirloom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Soup and Salad CHICK-PEA MISO SOUP WITH SALAD OF ORGANIC BABY GREENS, HEIRLOOM TOMATOES AND TOASTED SOY NUTS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's For Dinner? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...bent baseball into a new and thrilling shape. His appetites were as prodigious as his home runs, his affinity for the crowd and the camera seemingly part of his dna. By the time he retired in 1935, Ruth had become, in the words of sportswriter Jimmy Cannon, "a national heirloom," a gift from one generation to the next, a treasure from an earlier time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 10 Most Influential Athletes Of The Century | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...particularly memorable project, he recalls, was a plan to create a foam rubber teapot, which necessitated something from which to make the mold. The answer: Kiely loaned him the House's silver teapot without flinching--"probably an heirloom," Fitch says. He never told Kiely about how the Plaster of Paris and other chemicals almost didn't come off the silver...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Caped Crusader | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...unfortunately nicknamed "Dil" by his very own parents. He turns out to be just as sour as his namesake, much to older brother Tommy's dismay. To allay Tommy's miseries, his father Stu takes him to the basement and bestows "responsibility" upon him in the form of an heirloom pocket watch; as a big brother, Stu tells Tommy, he now has a responsibility to take care of Dil. Tommy is awed by the watch his father has given him, and takes good care of the "sponsitility," as he calls it, throughout the movie. Never mind the fact that Tommy...

Author: By Myung! H. Joh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IT'S RUGRAT-ER-IFFIC! | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...latest swimsuit documentary, Beauty and the Beach (July 11). The best viewing is hiding on obscure cable channels. Finding them can require not only keen summer-surfing skills but sometimes a DirecTV satellite. But hey, it's either that or spending another Monday night watching Caroline misplace a family heirloom, right after that visiting-mom episode. The choice is yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: How to Survive Summer | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

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