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Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your official speaker will exhort you to climb every mountain and follow your passion. Your paternal speaker suggests that you climb every other mountain and keep your shirt on. But he does have a few thoughts to offer, culled from half a century of immeasurable wisdom. They should just about cover the page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPEECH FOR A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...major find. Until they were discovered in 1994, human remains in Europe dated back only half a million years, in contrast to 1.8 million years in Asia and more than 2 million in Africa. And if the specimens represent a new species, the significance is even greater. Conventional wisdom had it that both humans and Neanderthals evolved from a species called Homo heidelbergensis that lived around 500,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRANCHING OUT | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

Enter to Grow in Wisdom...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson and Andrew K. Mandel, S | Title: 1996 1997 Year in Review | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Harvard students ingest rich and delectable written materials and learn to appreciate the wisdom that comes from them, but the Harvard Dining Services food is just another input, without spirit or meaning. The importance of Shakespeare is clear after a Harvard education, but the importance of the flesh, bones and leaves that enter our bodies garners perilously little attention...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Creme de la Creme | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...every bite until even the core was gone. For the brief moments that the juice stored in the white center would be forced from the apple's pores and into my mouth, the outline of clarity was mine. Dissatisfied with only the shell of an answer, but convinced that wisdom was located somewhere between a Granny Smith and a baked trout, I decided to treat myself to four days away from the city, where my only goal was to appreciate flavor. I cooked and I ate, savoring every bite and giving surety the attention it deserves...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Creme de la Creme | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

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