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...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 »

...beginning to taper a little more now and we're going to be shaved for Easterns," Scalise said. "With that, and solid performances all-around, I think that we will be able to beat them [the Tigers]. I don't think that my swimmers are ready to settle for anything less...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: W. Swimmers Solid But Not Satisfied | 2/8/1994 | See Source »

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