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Word: spatial (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public playgrounds have grown dark and unusable. At Naperville's Leaps & Bounds, families can play together for $4.95 per child, parents free. Fresh-faced "counselors," dressed in colorful sport pants and shirts, guide youngsters to appropriate play areas for differing age groups. Three-year-olds and younger can learn spatial concepts -- in and out, over and around -- by crawling in a padded plastic turtle shell or sinking into a quicksand of colorful balls and learning to control the multicolored plastic objects. Kids ages 4 to 6 climb a padded "Swiss-cheese mountain" or creep through a maze of blue, fuchsia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old-Fashioned Play -- for Pay | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

Hanson said that because of financial and spatial limitations Dudley House will be unable to expand beyond the current 2700 GSAS students and 110 undergraduates...

Author: By Mark L. Ruberg, | Title: Dudley Turning Away Non-GSAS Students | 9/28/1991 | See Source »

...most difficult to try to rear-range my spatial orientation by 90 degrees. I tried sleeping on the wall to reproduce the original pattern, but I couldn't seem to stay there, no matter how much poster gum I used...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: This Isn't a Stickup | 2/12/1991 | See Source »

...school," Layzer says. "Most people come to Harvard with a view of science that is completely distorted. It is as if science has to do only with memorizing formulas. This is as if people were taught about art by painting by numbers, so that you've taken away spatial organization and made it a mindless assembly...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: David Layzer: Teaching Science Through Prose or Poetry, But Not Equations | 2/9/1991 | See Source »

...roommates are threatening to turn me in to the Bureau of Study Counsel. They keep saying, "Half the solution is admitting the problem," but I think they are just jealous of my superior hand-eye coordination and sense of spatial relations...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Confessions of a TETRIS Junkie | 2/28/1990 | See Source »

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