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  • I guess as my China days diminish, I will begin retrospecting the lessons I've learned from my two years abroad.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Phil Razem 2009

  • I guess as my China days diminish, I will begin retrospecting the lessons I've learned from my two years abroad.

    For Teachers, PCVs, and Students in China (past, present, and future) Phil Razem 2009

  • For better or worse, 1968 has become iconic in American history, and we're about to get a burst of retrospecting in the looming 40th-anniversary year of 2008.

    Back to the '60s 2007

  • More to the point, as the election gets closer, I note most blogs conservative and liberal, but mostly conservative tend to spend less time retrospecting and more time cheerleading and/or demonizing.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Interesting Study on Professors’ Ideology: 2007

  • Re: THE game, I tried to fire up this pansy-ass chat-group on Friday night when Ian was probing their collective soul and retrospecting his former EE-on, um, er decade or er so on BlueVery Hill, but alas, nobody was listening.

    weight room! 2006

  • He could recall fifty occasions on which he could, or would, gladly have lost his head; but now, retrospecting, he was inclined to give himself the credit rather than Roselle, that their relations had been so innocuous.

    Married Life The True Romance May Edginton 1920

  • By retrospecting to occurances that happened during my journey of life.

    Life gleanings, by compiled 1913

  • Since when we have been retrospecting, doctoring, washing at a poor apology for a brook, and making ourselves comfortable in anticipation of Retreat and of the night.

    At Plattsburg Allen French 1908

  • Dick, as he rowed back, did not look about him: he was thinking or retrospecting.

    The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

  • In surveying the present, and in retrospecting the past, we find great reasons for gratitude, and for the indulgence of bright hopes for the future of our Church and people.

    Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal History 1902

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