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Word: xian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the “Xian myth...

Author: By An ANONYMOUS Grader, | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

Russian figure skaters can take a patriotic turn to Tchaikovsky. Americans can glide to Gershwin. But nobody in the skating community has heard of Xian Xinghai, one of China's premier composers. And that's a problem for Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, the skating duo who rank among China's top medal hopes for the Salt Lake City Games. "If we choose to skate to the most famous Chinese music," says Zhao, "no one will even recognize it, which puts us at a big disadvantage. It isn't really fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Patriotism On Ice | 2/4/2001 | See Source »

...seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the “Xian myth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/12/2001 | See Source »

...assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: BEATING THE SYSTEM | 5/17/2000 | See Source »

...will belv tt u wr a particulrly testy challenge sent by god, n he will belv tt he is a bttr Xian 4 hvg endured u. u will hv thrby strengthnd e church. well done, soman. y dnt u stay in ur rm 4 e rest of ur life...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the [K]now | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

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