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Word: journeyer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have the peculiar quality of being shaken by events of the smallest magnitude. As if the they were capable of throwing off the direction of your journey. Hah. Beef...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: To a Runner, From the Charles | 10/2/1997 | See Source »

...then set out on a cross-Vietnam journey with a single goal: to find a cure for opium addiction. He collected more than 100 herbal potions that villagers substituted for opium when their poppy crops failed and their supplies dwindled. Eventually, he decided on a drastic step: to addict himself to opium and experiment on himself. "I knew from my brother how dangerous this could be," he says, "but I decided this was the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

...find it's useful to look back and see where I've come from, because I know I will be a completely different person by the end of the semester," she says. "It's a really interesting journey...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: For Rawlins, Two Lunches And Coffee Is Business as Usual | 9/26/1997 | See Source »

Rudenstine, in his impeccable style, was talking about how college was a "journey" and an "adventure." Things would change, he told the Class of 2001. You may have arrived this week at Harvard with a firm idea of who you are and what you will become, but by the end of first semester, you might discover that you no longer want to be a doctor or a businessperson or "God help us, a lawyer." Instead, he explained in the sort of wistful voice that only academics can affect, you might discover a passion for the English Palladians (whoever they...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Rating Rudenstine's Words, Year by Year | 9/26/1997 | See Source »

...smart" doesn't really matter that much anymore. Instead, what matters is being able to see past your own intelligence to other things that are far more important-and far more impressive. Sure, some would-be doctors did end up getting really into spores. But even for them, the "journey" that started a few Septembers ago really didn't have that much to do with Harvard at all. It was life, not "college," but real life-that wandering and bludgeoning beast that withers in the lights of libraries and labs but roams and spawns in shared bedrooms and dirty bathrooms...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Rating Rudenstine's Words, Year by Year | 9/26/1997 | See Source »

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