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Word: needlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Columbia game was really close and because of the foul trouble I wasn't able to play," Feaster said. "So needless to say I was very eager for Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Basketball Trounces Big Red, 85-62 | 1/15/1997 | See Source »

...bemoan the corruption of the season if you must, but remember: that cubic zirconia ring isn't some needless trinket; it is a corpuscle in the bloodstream of a mighty economic engine. By the way, wouldn't a subscription to a lively, informative Weekly Newsmagazine make a splendid holiday offering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE REAL CHRISTMAS SPIRIT | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...Marsalis' band in 1991, Roberts has established himself as the most cerebral of jazz soloists, with a taste for sensuous, rich chords and intricately patterned melodies that resound with jazz's history yet push toward higher ground. Roberts polishes his work to a high gloss but never indulges in needless flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE BEST MUSIC OF 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...Jesuit mystic whose writings were banned by the Roman Catholic Church. Teilhard envisioned the technological evolution of a "noosphere"--the "thinking envelope of the Earth." The noosphere, he believed, entails a "sort of etherized universal consciousness" that will lead us, at last, to an era of brotherly love. Needless to say, Teilhard has a following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN THOR MAKE A COMEBACK? | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...Then what about the soccer games? At the first round of the NCAA championships, Harvard won rather dramatically. It was relatively chilly out and a little damp, but a rainbow stretched over the field in the second half. Harvard doesn't send out cheerleaders to soccer games, just rainbows. Needless to say, the rainbow did the trick. The next game didn't go nearly so well, and rain poured down. No top level Harvard dean bothered to stop the rain and that was that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Controls the Weather | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

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