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Word: railroads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Both machines performed extremely well under bumpy conditions, which surprised me. We were able to watch Bowfinger while driving over railroad ties without missing a frame. And both machines easily attached to my home television, bringing the intense, digital clarity of DVD to the larger screen. Life is indeed beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tearjerkers to Go | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

...Grogan said that the University will work with the railroad and other existing tenants to clear the way for development...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Wins Land Auction With $151M Bid | 6/30/2000 | See Source »

...believe in brain damage though. Take Phineas Gage, for example. On the morning of Sept. 13, 1848, Gage, a construction foreman for the Rutland & Burlington Railroad, was preparing a powder charge for blasting rock when it accidentally exploded, sending a 3-ft. 7-in., 13-lb. iron tamping bar straight through his skull. Gage fully recovered and lived for 12 more years, but his personality changed. He became an extravagant, antisocial, foulmouthed, bad-mannered liar. And apparently he'd been a pretty nice guy before the accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Changed Man? No Such Animal | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...China's Forbidden City who intrudes himself on a mission to rescue Princess Pei-Pei (Lucy Liu), who, avoiding an arranged marriage, has run far, far away to Carson City, Nev. There she is enslaved by Lo Fong (Roger Yuan), an unredeemable bad guy who is exploiting Chinese railroad workers, smuggling dope and demanding a ransom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: At Home on the Range | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

Working on the Railroad...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Looking For Land | 5/24/2000 | See Source »

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