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Word: tomes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really wouldn't want to go into the gamewith any other person on the team but SarahBrandt, hands down," says Russell. "Going into thegame against Stanford with Sarah Brandt next tome; it, to me, is why I play basketball and why Ilove this team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Features Trio of Sixth Women | 3/12/1998 | See Source »

With its alluring vacation section to brighten the spirits, who could blame students for coveting the glossy tome? Sanaz Hariri '99 calls the catalog "great procrastination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of Spearmint Wishes And Apricot Dreams | 2/13/1998 | See Source »

...what ad agencies used to call the soft sell. No subliminal advertising here. "Smoke this," demands a new Winston Cigarettes ad. Smell This is the unsubtle brand name of a new fragrance. Taste This, urges Ellen DeGeneres' latest CD. Rock This! insists Chris Rock's recent tome. So what gives? It's part of the continuing evolution of louche street slang into the mainstream. And, if you buy this, consumers just like to be told what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Crit | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...months ago literary critics were busying themselves trying to invent new synonyms for epic and powerful. These efforts--putting a serious premium on thesauruses nation wide--were sparked by the appearance of Don Dellio's Underworld. In that monster tome Dellio juggles the stories of multiple historic and non-historic characters, all the while mining the existential freak-show of the later 20th century for all its tragic, ironic and surreal material...

Author: By Brandon K. Walston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Surreal 'Chronicle' Traces Search for Cat, Identity in Japan | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...Difficulties (1934), an exchange of letters between Sir Arnold Lunn and Father Ronald Knox. Lunn, who invented skiing's slalom, was then an agnostic--he later converted--and Knox a famous Catholic apologist. Most readers will have to take on faith Buckley's assertion that this out-of-print tome has not been fatally "anachronized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: BUCKLEY'S SECRET GARDEN | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

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