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Word: panes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Under the most severe misapprehension," the paper wrote, "was an unidentified sightseeing freshman who tried to leave the Farnsworth room through a full-length pane of glass. The glass, apparently designed with this in mind, withstood the shock, but the freshman suffered assorted head bruises and a bloody nose...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A World of Books All Their Own | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...renovation project will also focus onpreserving University Hall's crown glass windows,which are produced by an antique process thatleaves easily recognizable concentric ripples ineach pane...

Author: By Jason M. Goins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: $10M Makeover Planned For University Hall | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...could I give up the usual keg party for a more sophisticated drinking atmosphere? Definitely. Could I kick my new habit of eating yummy Pane Romano avec Nutella that they serve at the Parisian cafe in Holyoke Center? Never. So maybe I should shop at Diesel, develop an accent, and let my attitude skyrocket. Or I could go a step further and do it the real way: take a semester off, rent a flat in London, and acquire a taste for Prada and Versace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Punching the culture club | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...every direction, nothing but tiny pieces of debris. The jet lay unrecognizable, "like a huge pane of shattered glass." And scattered among the shards were the people he had come for. He found an eye, a heart, a jawbone. Part of a hand embedded in an armrest. Poirier tries the word hellish to describe the scene, then takes it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches from the Grave | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...poem, Dreamers, to the woman who broke up his marriage to Plath. In it he writes: "The Fable she carried/ Requisitioned you and me and her,/ Puppets for its performance." Who wants to read about puppets? Hughes' insistence that he was only "a fly outside on the window-pane/ Of my own domestic drama" rings false, whatever the irretrievable facts of the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's License | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

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