Search Details

Word: tapering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...time for the Crimson to taper, shave and prove that their heavy training which held them back this weekend is ready to truly...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Purdue Closely Topped M. Swimming, 152-146 | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...childhood living with her mother and the buried memories of aunts and uncles who died in Hitler's death camps. Overheard scraps of dinner-table conversation are not enough to reconstruct the past, so Anna uses her imagination. She starts by picturing a single barb on a wire, "its taper, its point, its torque, its dull gleam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: HARD KNOCKS | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...whose celebrated furniture attained its apogee of design between 1820 and 1850. "Hands to work," said a Shaker motto, "hearts to God." Work was prayer, and nothing "worldly," meaning ostentatious or decorative, was allowed, beyond a discreet molding to the top of a cabinet or an elegant taper to a turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAKING IT STRAIGHT | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

...final preparations for Easterns isn't a time in our taper when we swim our fatest," sophomore Karl Sheer said...

Author: By Jill L. Brenner, | Title: M. Swimming Drowns Penn | 2/21/1995 | See Source »

...Physically, we need to rest and keep our taper going," Gately said. "Mentally, we are ready. We have been waiting and training all year for the Easterns...

Author: By Jill L. Brenner, | Title: W. Swimmers Split Over the Weekend | 2/7/1995 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Next