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Word: tinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tin Roof--by Tennessee Williams. Classic Southern drama of a family experiencing love, death, greed, homosexuality and alcohol. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In the Lowell House junior common room at 8 p.m. Admission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 12/12/1991 | See Source »

...Tin Roof--in the Lowell House JCR at 8 p.m. Admission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Community Calendar | 12/6/1991 | See Source »

...most important of the first Japanese assaults was the invasion of Malaya. The target there was not only the peninsula's wealth of tin and rubber but also the strategic citadel of Singapore. Built in the 1920s and '30s among the mangrove swamps of Johore Strait, at the then enormous cost of $270 million, Singapore stood as the theoretically impregnable naval headquarters of the whole British empire east of Suez. One symbol of the island's true strength, however, was its array of 15-in. guns that could not turn and fire into the supposedly impenetrable jungle behind them. Another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down but Not Out | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...This is the first year a living tree -- complete with a 40-ton root ball -- will serve as the nation's Christmas symbol. The 60-ft. giant will be garnished with strings of chili-pepper lights and 10,000 handmade ornaments from New Mexico, including silver coyotes, miniature pueblos, tin stars and brass jewelry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holidays: A Tree Grows In Washington | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...Green lost, and companies continue to pollute, cars continue to pollute, streams are fouled, the water table is drawn down, pesticides are air-sprayed over migrant workers. And the recycling truck comes once a week to pick up everyone's six glass jars, five pounds of newspapers and three tin cans...

Author: By J.d. Connor and David A. Plotz, S | Title: One National Point of Light | 11/1/1991 | See Source »

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