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Word: lessoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Roosevelt, Gandhi, Einstein. Three inspiring characters, each representing a different force of history in the past century. They were about as different as any three men are likely to be. Yet each in his own way, both intentionally and not, taught us the century's most important lesson: the value of being both humble and humane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...first patent, for an electric vote recorder, taught him a lesson that would guide the rest of his career. There was no demand, at the time, for electric vote recorders, and his device earned him nothing. Edison vowed never again to invent something unless he could be sure it was commercially marketable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 19th Century: Thomas Edison (1847-1931) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...theologian Marty, "but I don't like to make a theology out of that; it's an accidental product." Rosenbaum agrees that to focus on the benefits is to risk trivializing the tragedy itself. "There are a lot of people who want to say God was teaching us a lesson--evil is there so that we can learn by struggling against it. I find it kind of barbaric to envision a God who needs to slaughter a million babies in order to perhaps improve our character. I'm irritated by people who try to find some happy-ever-after improving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Necessary Evil? | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...This lesson in do-it-yourself scripture writing could easily allow any of us to be a self-anointed Matthew, Mark, Luke or John." GEORGE A. THOMA SR. Lombard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

After a brief lesson from Lewis on the history of Radcliffe, administrators at last night's meeting focused on what the Trust will do for the campus...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Trust Town Meeting Offers Few Answers | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

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