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Word: needlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...getting a pen into their hands, use it recklessly in spite of the warning of good taste. They forget that they pretend to be gentlemen, hence unpleasant contests. Hard words, we believe, should be reserved for those cases where men willfully persist in wrong action. Such cases, it is needless to say, rarely occur in college. It is an evil of the same kind, though not of the same degree, to try to convince by epithets, as to have recourse to bowie-knife and revolver when the pen has failed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'I Will Not Philosophize, I Will Be Read' | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

...magazine. "If I had found (then-deputy CIA chief Robert) Gates I would have attacked him, as these are people who make up policies for CIA or U.S. government," said Kansi. In his unprecedented disclosures, Kansi tells his life?s story and explains his deep anger at the U.S. Needless to say, traffic to Salon is heavy, and users may have to suffer a few reloads before getting to the terrorist?s confessional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorist's Online Confessions | 1/23/1998 | See Source »

...Needless to say, Bott did not make a very good first impression on the dean...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mathematics Professor Recounts Wartime Coming-of-Age | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...where they feed for a year on the defenseless spider crab as a training exercise before they take off again and swim down to the Chesapeake Bay area in Maryland, where they eat the much tougher blue claw crab for which the Long Island boot camp has prepared them? Needless to say, they made my inventory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THANKSGIVING INVENTORY | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...falling with little pings to the ground. There was something beautiful about it all, but in another, more real sense, it was cold and wet--so I decided to stay inside. I wandered into the Mather House library to check out the magazines and there it was, the answer. Needless to say, I was surprised to have stumbled upon this priceless information in such a casual manner and in such an inauspicious setting. One could imagine discovering manliness in Mather, but in the library...

Author: By Talia Milgrom-elcott, | Title: Discovering Manliness in Mather | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

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