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Word: wised (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yeah, Mom, I'm kind of sick. I have a cold and stuff. (At this point, I thought it wise to refrain from mentioning the fever and the constant fatigue.) I really have...

Author: By Aparna Sridhar, | Title: Sympathy Strikes | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

Note that certain classes require advance registration and are always liable to change, so calling ahead is wise. Partners are optional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOU CAN DANCE. | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...think that's a wise use of the money that Harvard had collected on the UC'sbehalf for distribution to student activities andevents," Lewis said...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Despite Clamor, Student Center Seems Pipe Dream | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

...image in Samira Makhmalbaf's The Apple, introduces with poetic clarity the film's strange, true story: of 12-year-old twin girls imprisoned by their father in their Tehran home, away from sunlight, from the friendship of other kids, from the smallest ecstasies and exasperations of childhood. This wise, poignant film was made under unusual circumstances. The father and the girls were persuaded to play themselves, and Makhmalbaf was only 17 when she shot it. But extraordinary Iranian films have been almost...ordinary. Savvy cinephiles know that Iran is the place where movie miracles happen all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Kids Are All Right | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...Bedford Street, was once the home of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Another tiny house, a lopsided cottage on Charles and Greenwich, is surely one of the most charming in the city. Named Cobble Court, it was once located on the Upper East Side, where it housed Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon. Sophisticated teens will want to stop for a hamburger at the White Horse Tavern on Hudson Street, the onetime haunt of poet Dylan Thomas. And St. Luke's Place is a literary warren: novelist Theodore Dreiser lived at No. 16, poet Marianne Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family: A Bookworm's Tour Of the Big Apple | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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