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Word: flatterers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just have some really smart guys here," said Cliff H. Taubes, math professor and faculty coordinator of the Harvard team. "I don't imagine that we could flatter ourselves and say we taught them what they know. It's all to their credit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Students Place First in Math Contest | 3/23/1989 | See Source »

...There is a flatter market," he says, "but it is not dead at all." The market perks up in late spring or early summer because Cambridge operates on an academic year, he adds...

Author: By Tracy Kramer, | Title: Going for Condos and Smoked Salmon | 2/16/1989 | See Source »

...generation of yuppies vie to succeed Al Vellucci, their voices sound flatter and harsher than the full declamations Cambridge has come to expect of its last New Deal populist. Like Harvard Square, the City Council is losing its human touch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Al, Be Seeing You | 1/20/1989 | See Source »

...could use as a scaffolding, modify or abandon altogether; Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni, active from 1423 to 1450) did this all the time. He studied earlier Sienese artists, mainly Pietro Lorenzetti, for spatial clues as carefully as Masaccio looked at Giotto, and inevitably, came up with a lighter, slightly flatter and, as it were, more spindly and papery space -- which he still imbued with a magical lightness and precision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Escape to Renaissance Siena 15th century painting is a delight | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

Cute boxers and undies will flatter cute buns...

Author: By Abigail N. Sosland, | Title: Christmas Shopping From A to Z | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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