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Word: widely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play in your life? Or just fucking? What would I have done 300 years ago for the equivalent shock tactic of a swear word? Why is free and unpredictable movement so threatening on subways? Should I mind when a toddler hurls itself at my crotch and vomits on my wide-wale corduroys...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Things Past | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...Cast a wide net, scrabble up and down from period to period, a scale intimate like Proust's madeleine and yet grand and popular. How did people do this before? Should I Mach Three today, or go for a barbershop shave with strop and blade? Send someone a letter, or an e-mail? Do I touch-type it up, or take out the typewriter, and probably wrangle with the ribbon far less than I'd sweat blood over a smug squat printer? But, no, it isn't just efficiency, isn't it the pre-modern satisfaction of unfamiliar physical immediacy...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Things Past | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...symposium Dunn is planning for late April, titled "Gender and Inquiry," gives a sense of how a single theme might cut across a wide variety of disciplines...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman and Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Money in the Bank | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...freshman setter Mindy Jellin (25 assists) finally stopped the bleeding for the Crimson. On the next Quinnipiac serve, she tapped the ball into a foot-wide open space, with no Braves players anywhere near, to end the threat...

Author: By David R. De remer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Knocks Off Quinnipiac in Four Games | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

...Once they understood our policy of reserving the name for University-wide activities, they changed [their publication's name]," Hess said...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Newsletter Must Omit 'Harvard' in Name | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

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