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Word: pencils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prevent students from changing answers, then submitting exams for regrading, Gelbart says his graders refuse to regrade exams that were taken in pencil...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, | Title: CHEATING at Harvard | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

Jeffrey got out a stub of a pencil and made a correction on the pledge card. "That makes eight," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PASSING THE HAT FOR NEWT | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...years, Harvard students, professors, administrators and staff have been forced to look upon a sorry shadow of what could be, leaving the tower only in their imaginations--and in their line drawings of the hall with tower, as Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles is apt to pencil off in a free moment...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Seeking Money for Memorial Hall | 4/11/1997 | See Source »

...that of diseased individuals. In 41 nuns who did not have Alzheimer's-like brains, researchers found, strokes caused no measurable decrease in overall mental competence. But in nuns with Alzheimer's, just one or two strokes--small strokes that left swirls of dead tissue no bigger than a pencil tip--were enough to trigger a precipitous decline. "One brain disease is bad enough," Snowdon observes. "But when you add a second disease to it, you're in real trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GIFT OF LOVE | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...that time of year again. You sit hunched over a sheet of paper with a pencil in your sweaty palms. You agonize over each game. All of a sudden, you realize that you really care about Butler and Coppin State...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Kansas Over Kentucky | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

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