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Word: jested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's faculty has an international reputation. But among students, some scholars are merely seen from a distance and are often inaccessible to students. Rosovsky, in part jest, touched on the issue of inaccessibility when he said he too had a difficult time in reaching colleagues during the reading and exam periods...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: WANTED | 12/11/1991 | See Source »

Accusing Gomes of filial impiety, murder, adultery, larceny, lying and covetousness, even in jest, doesn't advance Brown's argument; it merely gives him another chance to mock the man. Brown puts himself on such a high and sarcastic pedestal, it seems to me, only to spit on others from it, and that's reprehansible as well as prideful. Brown may be very familiar with St. Paul's Letter to the Romans, but he's forgotten St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians: "Be ye kind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peninsula, Please Shut Up | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...total jest. I'm surprised that anybody took offense," said Brian M. Gibel...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: History Prof Denies Charges of Sexism | 11/7/1991 | See Source »

...unemployment-benefits bill with no fanfare, Bush would have none of it. He ordered a Rose Garden offensive with his political general staff assembled for the cameras, and he signed the veto with a flourish. As House Minority Leader Robert Michel left the scene, he muttered, only partly in jest, "Could you airbrush me out of this picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency You Shouldn't Win 'Em All | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...some jest of Providence, the first three numbers did not provide fun enough for the crowd, the group's thickly textured "Leave It" put to rest any lingering doubts as to the sweetness of this...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: This Jam Was Not Stuck in Traffic | 10/17/1991 | See Source »

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