Word: hallmarked
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What is it that makes us scowl at the cheerful couples on the street and frown at the roses in the flower shops? What makes us dismiss St. Valentine's Day as nothing more than a Hallmark holiday created to take money out of our wallets, though the practice of making and sending Valentine's cards began more than 500 years before Hallmark was founded? (The oldest surviving Valentine's Day card currently resides in the British Museum; the Duke of Orleans sent it to his wife while he was locked in the Tower of London in 1415. Hallmark...
...fact, Americans are both puerile and cynical about romantic love. The Hallmark soft-focus romanticism is just a form of self-deception. As Valentine's Day approaches, let's look at the evidence...
...more practical contingent might point to the venerable personalities saturating these few square kilometers. The hallmark of a great university, the argument goes, lies in its ability to convene and to remain the site of discussion; this University should thus be a place of many discussions, potential or actual. (This argument is best set within the usual pseudoscientific rhetoric of success, brainwaves and pouvoir...
...Friday, the Crimson (11-7, 4-2 Ivy) was in sleepy Ithaca, N.Y., dismantling the weak Big Red squad (5-13, 1-4), 65-57, with the type of stifling defense that has become a Harvard hallmark...
...Speed has so far been this recession's hallmark. This time last year, almost no one thought the American economy would deteriorate so quickly. According to Consensus Economics, economists thought gdp growth would fall from a blistering 5.1% to a languid 2.6% in 2001; in fact, the U.S. barely managed 1% growth...