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Word: understood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Second, the group deems the advertisement's claims "silly" and "false." Granted, an unsupported claim that the world's population can be housed in Texas seems "silly." But as anyone who read the piece would have understood, this was simply rhetorical hyperbole used to refute over-population arguments in favor of abortion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advertising and Content Rightly Kept Separate | 3/2/1999 | See Source »

...something that can be done properly, and controlling the amount of video data is not a big problem." Doyle says. "It just has to be understood...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You Want Your HRTV? It's Coming Soon to a Computer Screen Near You | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...promise made and understood here is, of course, that the reader is in the hands of a fine storyteller, whose tale, after many turnings, will end as it should. The turnings are traditional. The title figure, a beautiful, not very experienced young Scotswoman, arrives in London to work in the war effort. She and the pilot, Peter Gregory, meet and have a brief, rather restrained romance. Then he disappears on a flight to provision a Resistance group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back on the Front Line | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Since then, hip-hop has gone more global than McDonald's, and the fever for the flavor of "representing" has waned in hip-hop artists' vernacular. As few as maybe two years ago, the hip-hop vocalist's primary focus involved overtly "keeping it real," understood as portraying an accurate picture of the artist's origin both as an artist and (presumably) as a minority youth-at-risk. Now, no one admits this priority, but everyone expects it as they do from an anthropologist: all of hip-hop culture, condensed in the "real it," should come across...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, | Title: ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING: The MC's Job, Apparently | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...reason is the same one that men should not be allowed to join the Rockettes: the show will not be the show if the other sex joins it. Personally, in all my college career I've never quite understood what all the HPT hype is about. If women joined and the form were to change, it wouldn't bother me much. But 151 years of caca-doody humor say I'm in the minority. And this year, if you're in the mood for the Pudding Show, you won't be well hung--I mean, hung...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Show Me The Pudding | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

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