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Word: nerdish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four-eyes lives on campus, he's refined his apparatus to the point that he needn't leave his room because nobody's seen him yet. In fact, a historical survey of Harvard inventors proves that practicality and an urge to make a buck have long quashed students' nerdish creative impulses...

Author: By Debra P. Hunter and Richard Parr, S | Title: IN THE MEANTIME Patent No. 02138 | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...four-eyes lives on campus, he's refined his apparatus to the point that he needn't leave his room because nobody's seen him yet. In fact, a historical survey of Harvard inventors proves that practicality and an urge to make a buck have long quashed students' nerdish creative impulses...

Author: By With DEBRA P. hunter and Richard Parr, S | Title: Patent No. 02138: A Brief History of Undergraduate Inventions | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...upcoming TV ads, nerdish lab hounds, supposedly employed by the brewers at Miller, confront button-down corporate types, promoting the "drinkability" of their latest product. With unmistakable shyness they unveil . . . Miller Clear, the new beer that's as clear as water. As the stunned execs peer through a lucid flagon, so amazed that the hair on one turns white, an announcer proclaims, "To make a truly great beer-drinking beer, we had to do just one little thing" -- an innovation by that point transparently obvious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forever Amber? | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...theater at these bistros and boites. It's the latest, cheeriest and, for the consumer, most economical show-biz trend: Silly Cabaret. How silly? Audiences get to be part of the foolishness. They can join a conga line at Song of Singapore (1), play Heart and Soul with the nerdish vocal quartet in Forever Plaid (2), be a beauty- contest judge at Pageant (3), hum along at Forbidden Broadway 1991 1/2 (4), be a suspect in the whodunit plot at a Hasselfree murder mystery (5) or stand to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at Prom Queens Unchained (6). For warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come to The Cabaret! | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

Jeremy Nye '94 plays the nerdish studio accountant, Linus Pockets, who speaks in incomprehensible alliterations and wears only plaid. Nye pulls off without a hitch tongue-twisters like this one: "Stu-Stu Studio stock has slipped significantly, suggesting a single, sudden smash success is the solitary studio-saving scenario." Unfortunately, his role is limited to rushing onto the stage with periodic bad news...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: HPT 143 Safari Sagoodi Is Pretty Darn Goodi | 2/21/1991 | See Source »

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