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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know that there are more than 350,000 species of beetles on earth (J.B.S. Haldane once observed that God "is inordinately fond of beetles"), and that there may be at least 1 million more that nobody has yet identified? Or that one species eats only roses and another only snails? Or that yet another can imitate the light of a female firefly so exactly that when a male firefly comes to mate, it gets eaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Acute Agility | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

Goldman responded, "I know it's hard to believe. It's not anti-Soviet. I'm looking at it as an economist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goldman Facesthe Soviet Press | 5/26/1989 | See Source »

...There are plans for Wednesday, but we don't know if he'll do it," said one friend of the Texas Democrat. "He's torn between wanting to be heard [in an ethics committee hearing] and doing what's best for himself and the House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Friends: Wright All But Decided to Resign | 5/26/1989 | See Source »

...squash banquet in April, the guy who didn't know anything about squash four years ago was being thanked for his coverage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stories of Squash | 5/26/1989 | See Source »

...differ on a lot of the issues. Make that all of them. You know the axiom that says there is a Harvard man on both ends of an argument. Well, there is a Lartigue on each...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: A Liberal Hostage | 5/24/1989 | See Source »

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