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Word: quietness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quiet reigned in the resonant entryway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLY SWATTER | 4/10/1998 | See Source »

...same manner, I can feel comfortable complaining to my friends about my love life while many of my homosexual friends choose to keep quiet because the objects of their desire are illegitimate in the eyes of many people who hold explicit or implicit power at this school. When a socially conservative professor invites me to bring a "significant other" to a gathering, I can feel comfortable bringing a woman, while a gay man or woman might think twice before bringing their own significant others because they fear the effect such "outspokeness" might have on their academic life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contextualizing 'Clit Notes' | 4/10/1998 | See Source »

...Pforzheimer, people wouldn't have been enthusiastic enough. It was true--it was pretty quiet and self-contained," Satvat said of Pfo-Ho's pre-randomization House character...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Committee Leaders Gear-up Post-Randomization | 4/10/1998 | See Source »

...floor, round black cushions arranged in a semi-circle as they meditate in perfect silence for a half-hour in the Adams House Senior Common Room. While sounds of rehearsing choral groups waft up and into the calm room, each treasures the serene weekly moment of peace and semi-quiet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Talking Across Each Other | 4/10/1998 | See Source »

Every night, scores of Harvard students look up from their unmarked and neglected Ec 10 source-books into the deceptively silent darkness, wondering what the rest of the world is up to. Gazing into neighboring windows, we wonder what could be going on behind the closed curtains. The quiet world of Harvard's "watchers in the night" is a lot more widespread than one might guess...

Author: By Penelope A. Carter, | Title: HERE'S LOOKIN' AT YOU KID! | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

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