Word: adorn
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Grolier has its own unique atmosphere. The room is a perfect square teeming with bookshelves, each filled nearly to capacity with volumes of poetry. Two hanging baskets of plants adorn the front of the store, and the highest reaches of the walls display black and white photographs of poets, donated by the poets themselves. The floor no longer creaks; during the mid-80s, Harvard University took ownership of the property. A Grolier customer who was involved in the selling of the property wrote a provision into the contract stipulating that Harvard had to redo the floor and paint the ceiling...
When a Harvard professor speaks, America’s intellectual elite listens. Fame broadcasts their insights in all the usual places: section, book covers, and even on CNN. But, it is not often that Harvard witticisms adorn the bumper of your Honda accord. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard Professor of Early American History, has succeeded in capturing a mobile market with her quote, “Well-behaved women rarely make history...
...right in, see?" she says chirpily, before unloading a Jell-O container onto the white paper in front of her and digging in. As her creation takes shape, Andrew Boatright, 3, is quiet, wide-eyed, awed. Soon his primitive portraits cover the table, and many dollops of brown glop adorn his newly animated face...
...good old American-Gothic kind of families, a new child was welcomed into the family with a quilt. Mom needlepointed and pillows became lively decorations when strewn about the house. A hundred years later, those same familial objects that used to adorn a home are now displayed in a museum. But are quilts, dolls, toy chests and family portraits art? Does a weathervane belong in a museum...
...Editorials in July will argue that each All-Star team should be allotted 80 roster spots 2. A batter will hit .430 in April and adorn the cover of Sports Illustrated. He'll finish the season at .329 3. A star player will endure a major slump due to unrevealed marital or substance-abuse challenges. The public will think he's got a back problem...