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Word: uprighteous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which can grow at a rate of 20 in. a day, reach down 100 ft. to granite reefs. The kelp is tethered by stipes-stems, structures that connect the base, or holdfast, to the leaflike blades. Gas-filled floats at the base of the blades keep the fronds standing upright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYLVIA EARLE : Call Of The Sea | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE, 26-33 Circle of Hell: I Seems like: A Beastie Boys video Next Seinfeld? They're looking to kill the next Seinfeld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny: The Next Generation | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...club, but by 1717 had evolved into an engine of the European Enlightenment. Its members were committed to egalitarianism, civic participation and other ideals expressed through tropes of the stoneworkers trade: the square for straightforward virtue; the compass to circumscribe one's passions; the plumb line to stay upright. There was little religion but much ritual, which enraged churchmen and engaged conspiracy theorists, who still flood the Web with Masonic villainies, but it posed no problem for the Deists, who frequented the Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin joined in Philadelphia and later guided Voltaire through the order's mysteries. Colonial lodges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endangered Conspirators | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...finally made it to an upright position. I ran as fast as I could around to the front of the motel. I saw a car with people in it and screamed at them to help me, but they sped away. I ran into the motel office and got the night guard. As we ran back to my mother, I screamed at the guard to run faster and yelled "Mom! I got help! We're coming...

Author: By Jennifer M. Rhodes, | Title: More Than Survival | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

...prices and added seats to Pro Air destinations, including Baltimore, Md.; Newark, N.J.; and Indianapolis, Ind. Under this assault, Pro Air recently abandoned one of its Indianapolis routes, as well as a $69 one-way trip to Milwaukee, Wis. Before you could say "Put your tray tables in their upright and locked position," Northwest jacked up some Milwaukee seats to more than $200, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting The Predators | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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