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Word: woodenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...correct horizontal line of sight, the monitor's top should be at or below the eyes. The wooden work surface in the Cornell home is fixed at 28 in., but an adjustable chair allows each child to sit at the correct height...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Sit Right, Study Hard | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...kids can peruse celebrity wish lists (tip: Britney Spears wants a WNBA basketball, body glitter and, oddly enough, her own CD). At RocketCash, a top-10 list of user purchases lends some insight into what's hot with the masses. Recent chart toppers include a Limp Bizkit CD and wooden bracelets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Electronic Allowances | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...waxed wooden floor of lane 49 shines, dividing the darkness of the otherwise empty alley. Sitting in one of three connecting plastic chairs, Professor Robert D. Putnam leans down to lace up his maroon and tan aerosol-sprayed shoes, and smiles: "The only thing that's off the record is if I bowl a gutterball...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Bowling with Prof. Putnam | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...parody of the show. Unfortunately, neither Mister Rogers nor his lawyers found the page very humorous, and it has been removed. The Steaks have since concentrated their efforts on the rock opera, which features puppets. "Puppets are always sinister because their eyes don't move and/or they have wooden heads and fake hair," he deadpans. "And in Mister Roger's neighborhood they're rendered even more sinister because they're represented as being goody-goody." In the rock opera, they're cutting the crap, and doing it straight-take sinister. An evil triumvirate consisting of the Purple Panda, King Friday...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Jamming with Prof. Vaux | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

Shepard was the gay college student from the University of Wyoming who was murdered a year ago this month in Laramie. After leaving a bar together, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson drove Shepard to a deserted field, beat him savagely, tied him to a wooden fence and left him exposed overnight. A cyclist who found the bloody body the next day mistook it for a scarecrow...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, | Title: The Lessons of Lynchburg | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

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