Word: paraphenalia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story red brick control building is linked to the cyclotron by a narrow corridor, carrying electrical conduits, ventilating paraphenalia, and other connecting fibers that will put life into the atom-smasher...
...third of whom are wives of University students, quiet is the order of the day in the nursery. The two-year-olds, the three-year-olds, and the four-year-olds each have their own play-room, complete with blocks, rockers, see-saws, and other bits of infant paraphenalia. There is even an isolation group for "sick or over-stimulated children," according to Miss Lydon who adds that the four-year-olds are "the wild crowd...
...suave rapacity, and his characterization of an Army sleuth hoists the picture over many implausible bits of plot. With Nomura's grin still pacifying Washington, Bogart tracks Jap saboteurs in a wild chase from Canada to Panama. Ships, lonely docks, subway pursuits, and airplanes are all standard paraphenalia to this cast, which seems equally at home on land, on the sea, and in the air. Mary Astor, as the girl who's always there when the shooting starts, is always attractive scenery. The fact that she can act with the best of a strong cast does not weaken the film...
...about six feet higher than the other. Each bench had a long board running in front of it much in the style of Sever Hall, and on the board there can be placed typewriters, telegraph machines, or pen and ink. No one that I saw was using any journalistic paraphenalia, however, except for a man with a telegraph key up behind me. He seemed to be oblivious of a noisy party on the other end of the line and sat quiet and enjoyed the game with his colleagues...