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Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will bring whatever wisdom I have," Hesburgh said in an interview yesterday. "I just hope we can mobilize our efforts to make Harvard an ever greater place...

Author: By Nan Zheng, | Title: Overseers Pick New Leader | 4/15/1994 | See Source »

...involves the issue of critical distance. In writing about an era that had passed, Eliot felt free to comment on it, as a humorist and stern solon. By contrast, the mini-series is more of a period piece. It replicates the story but reflects only in part the wisdom of Eliot's novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Middlemarch Madness? | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...conventional Washington wisdom is on the mark, this year's installment should be particularly compelling. The Judiciary Committee will be pitted against a friend and a colleague, Sen. George M. Mitchell (D-Maine). Compelling yes, but probably without the rhetorical bombast and incendiary accusations that have tainted some recent hearings (no, not Bader-Ginsburg...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: Dilettantism, Washington-Style | 4/8/1994 | See Source »

...their infinite wisdom, our Founding Fathers created a republic whose political power did not inhere in any individual or institution. Checks and balances--buzzwords from elementary school civics--are the guarantors of the enduring health of our polity...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: Dilettantism, Washington-Style | 4/8/1994 | See Source »

...career was cut short when he had a breakdown after the accidental death of his best friend, "Nutso." He now works as a security guard at Kyle's high school and broods in the hallways. With such a history, you'd think he would have some words of wisdom for the young Kyle, but he doesn't. He just broods in the hallways...

Author: By John Donahue, | Title: Courting Disaster | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

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