Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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On the other hand, every new term, however inelegant, is given the treatment that long ago distinguished the OED from all competitors. This dictionary does not merely give etymologies, pronunciations and definitions; it also provides a word's earliest known appearance in print and uses quotations to illustrate the context...
March Madness, it's called, but it doesn't have the same meaning anymore. It's certainly living up to the "madness" part. But the insanity started a little early this year--and it hasn't affected just basketball teams.
But I'll probably go back to Briggs Cage next winter to see athletes such as Harvard sophomore Ian Smith, who packs biology books with his Nikes and gives meaning to that first forgotten word in "student-athlete."
Reading these genetic words and deciphering their meaning is apparently a snap for the clever machinery of a cell. But for mere scientists it is a formidable and time-consuming task. For instance, a snippet of DNA might read ACGGTAGAT, a message that researchers can decipher rather easily. It codes...
Observers credit Mrs. Gorbachev's new prominence to both glasnost and her % natural self-confidence. But not all Soviets approve of Raisa's high profile. Groused one Muscovite: "What is the meaning of Raisa this, Raisa that? Am I supposed to live like she does?" At a televised celebration at...