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Word: speakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smoke continues to drift over, Putnam approaches the lane for his next bowl, staring down the white pins in the florescent light. Returning to his seat as the pins are reset again, Putnam gets on a roll, so to speak, about the historical context of our social capital problem...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Bowling with Prof. Putnam | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...course, Albanian might mean something to Vaux, who speaks five or six languages. "Badly. And I'm not good at accents. I can read about 20 languages. But this is not the focus of linguistics these days. People focus on the structure of languages instead of learning how to speak them well...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Jamming with Prof. Vaux | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...legislate the way people use language," he says. "Yes it's true that many languages are disappearing, but it will never happen that every person will speak exactly the same way. It's impossible. We may all speak English, but there will be an incredible variety...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Jamming with Prof. Vaux | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

With Don Harding as the only candidate to speak out unequivocally against school choice, advocating instead a return to a simple neighborhood schooling system, it's not likely that the choice system will be departing altogether anytime soon, despite new residents' protests...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Seasoned School Committee | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...sense the flyer was silly, even meaningless. Blasphemy is to speak disrespectfully of religion. The dictionary says so. To give it a new meaning is a little like Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking-Glass pretending to Alice that "glory" means "a nice knock-down argument." Pretending that blasphemy is denying one's dreams is as logical as claiming that extortion is a weak cup of tea or that homeopathy is picking up the telephone with one's foot. But of course what the author really meant is that desiring passionately is an infinitely more important thing that being mindful...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: On the Subject of Blasphemy | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

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