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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...outing: gentlemen, grab your sunocles (sunocle = sunglass monocle). This round is all about confidence and fitting in. Remember they’re just as uncomfortable as you are. [citation needed]. Don’t make the same mistake we did. Chiappini still remembers lying on soft meadow grass with a Delphic member, remarking that a cloud looked like a bunny. The member retorted, “No, it’s a Delphic. They’re all Delphics.” To always have a relevant conversation topic, bring along a talisman related to the club?...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Prestige and Mobility’s | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...compilers. David Pybus, a perfumer in London, says agrestic's alternate meaning should qualify it for preservation: "It is used," he says, "in the perfume and flavor industry quite extensively to describe an aroma note or type which is 'of the countryside,' such as hay, heather, forest depths or meadow." Who knew? Elsewhere, fantasy-game devotees have rushed to the defense of periapt (a charm or amulet), which they know from the popular Dungeons & Dragons game, and geologists have pointed out the utility of griseous (streaked or mixed with gray) in describing rocks and minerals. Apparently, one man's linguistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hangman, Spare That Word: The English Purge Their Language | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

Five years ago, on the night of June 1, 2003, a Phoenix housewife named Stephenie Meyer had a dream: a young woman was talking to a beautiful, sparkling man in a sunlit meadow. The man was a vampire. They were in love, and he was telling the girl how hard it was for him to keep from killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephenie Meyer: A New J.K. Rowling? | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

...many students, who had planned to travel home for winter break on Vamoose buses. “I was planning to take it home for winter break, but now I can’t,” said Zachary A. Katz ’10, who lives in East Meadow, New York. “It’s an inconvenience because the vamoose bus went straight to Penn Station and I could get straight on the Long Island Rail Road.” The missing license is the latest in a series of upsets that the Vamoose company...

Author: By Frances Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cambridge Puts a Stop to Vamoose Bus | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...hope they realize that we are not just future global citizens, world leaders or thinkers, but people with questions that we want answered now. I likely will never step foot in a lab again, but at least I grew as a person by learning about the plight of the meadow voles...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore | Title: The Core in Real Life | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

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