Word: paraphernalia
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Yeah, that answer surprised us too. The lecture hall was packed almost to capacity with a handful of undergraduates and an overwhelming number of crossword enthusiasts from the Boston area, easily identified by graying hair, thick glasses, and/or crossword paraphernalia. One woman wore a crossword grid scarf. Another carried a crossword grid tote bag. Flyby began to feel a little boxed in by all the black-and-white squares...
...true that I wish I could get my DHAs before the end of my season, use the trainer when I become injured, and spend a smaller portion of my life selling cheer paraphernalia to cover competition fees. However, when I pull on my Harvard crimson and white and show off the results of my endless practices, it’s all worth...
...Harvard time capsule dating back to 1900 features approximately 70 photographs of regular college fixtures that serve as a reference point for the project’s architects. It includes photographs of items such as beer steins, pipes, paraphernalia of membership in social clubs, and school banners taken by Julian Burroughs, class of 1901. The pictures have been preserved by the Harvard University Archives to depict daily student life at the University at the turn of the 20th century...
...shopping mall just off Revolution Street fills with students from the nearby universities. The mall is popular with Basijis--the young volunteers who fill the ranks of government-sponsored demonstrations. When they grow up, they join the government and the Revolutionary Guards corps. The Mahestan mall sells mostly religious paraphernalia--Koranic software, recordings of religious chants, speeches from modern Islamic heroes like Khomeini, Ahmadinejad and Lebanese Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah--that constitute a kind of state-sponsored Islamic pop culture. Such a culture sustains the Basij movement, which is itself part of the way the government tries to channel...
...understood over the last 150 years,” said Jenna A. Tonn, a first-year graduate student in the History of Science Department and a member of the course. “It’s probably the only exhibit about Darwin where you see everything on Darwin paraphernalia and bobbleheads to original copies of important texts by Darwin.” Melissa M. Lo, also a first-year graduate student in the course, said that evolution did not achieve its status as universal knowledge until biologists years later expounded the idea. Her role in the exhibition involved showcasing...