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Word: lows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found that current publications on campus didn't really appeal to all students. We wanted something that was neither low-brow nor difficult to relate to," Weisbard said...

Author: By Daniel A. Zweifach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Humor Magazine Prints First Issue | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...more than helium-filled sacs with gondolas swinging beneath them, rising no more than 20 or 25 miles, barely twice as high as military jets and complete captives of the wind. Yet while ballooning may seem the antithesis of the space age, it is exciting renewed interest as a low-cost alternative to costly orbital labs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploring Space on the Cheap | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...collection of short stories. Originally published individually in magazines, sometimes under other titles, the stories contain a surprisingly strong amount of thematic cohesion. With a few exceptions, the tales each sport an intelligent but dissatisfied heroine, an almost fetish-like interest for said heroine, and a mired or low-key or entirely absent climax...

Author: By Jason F. Clarke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: All Heroine, No High | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...Undergraduate Council is the most maligned student organization on campus. Its parade of trials and tribulations--comically low election turnouts, the consistent failure of Springfest, the recent "discovery" of the "lost" $40,000--no longer even amuse us. Watching 10 people dance to God Street Wine was kind of funny. Last year's blood bath in the MAC quad...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Going for the Glory of the Holworthy Basement | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...results to my own weak salesmanship. This time, things started no better. Of the first dozen classmates I called, not one answered the telephone. Where were all those likely donors when I wanted them? To have nothing to show after a half-hour's work further depressed my already low expectations...

Author: By Richard Griffin, | Title: Still on the Phone | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

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