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Word: marked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's 2-5 record is well below the .500 mark and does not appear to bode well for the rest of the season. But that 2-5 mark needs to be examined more closely before we leave this team for dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Chronicle of Harvard's Walking Wounded | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

...four of the six seasons that Harvard has won the Ivy League title, it has compiled a non-conference mark of 25-22, barely above. 500. Last season's 10-2 pre-Ivy record was the exception, not the rule, and even then the Crimson was not playing good basketball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Chronicle of Harvard's Walking Wounded | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

...Mark G. Heiman '00, who says he plans to withdraw his money from the Charles River Fund, says the recent losses can be attributed to a case of "too many chiefs and not enough Indians...

Author: By David A. Whelan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Tale of Two Funds | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

...offers me a parable. If you go into the woods, he says, and you look for a new plot to farm, you have to put a marker down; otherwise you won't be able to find the plot when you return. He asks me, "What will be your mark, to ensure your return?" by which he clearly means, "Are you here for a moment or for the long haul?" It is the question no journalist wants to hear. I see that I am out of my league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: RUSSELL MITTERMEIER: Into the Woods | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...shaman placed a bamboo shoot filled with hallucinogenic snuff against Mark Plotkin's left nostril and blew into the tube. Plotkin's head snapped back, he recalls, as if he "had been hit with a war club." Little men began dancing before his eyes. He asked the shaman who they were. "They are the hekuri," the wise man replied, "the spirits of the forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: MARK PLOTKIN: In Search Of The Shamans' Vanishing Wisdom | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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