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ELEPHANTS U.S. zoologists said last week that a study using mirrors shows elephants are self-aware--a trait previously proved only in primates and dolphins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brainy Beasts | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...Eyyyy... Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I don’t lie. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: When I run, my ears catch the wind and get cold. That is uncomfortable. Favorite childhood toy: Cords. Yes, cords. Sexiest physical trait: My biceps/thigh circumference ratio. Favorite part about Harvard: The fencing team (of course). Describe yourself in three words: Lost in translation. In 15 minutes you are: Eating dinner. In 15 years you are: Nowhere to be seen or eating dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: scoped! | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

Sexiest physical trait: My gills...

Author: By FM Staff | Title: Scoped! | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

...unifying trait of these Latin American Macbeths is that they disregard democratic continuity; nothing transcends them. This is even represented in the syntax used every time a new regime or military junta is called in. The PRI party’s name in Mexico, which “won” elections uninterruptedly for almost a century, stands for “Institutional Revolution Party.” In Argentina, the last military junta instituted a permanent “Process of National Reorganization,” which gave painful birth to thousands of “desaparecidos...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Better Luck Next Time | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...elevate themselves: “The Harvard of dog-training schools;” “The Harvard of Pilates Teacher Training Programs.” The irony was apparently lost on 02138. Such self-adoration, particularly when feigned as irritation, is in ignorance of a staple Harvard trait: good taste. The real trouble with 02138 is that it doesn’t understand what makes Harvard great. It embraces jewels and jetsetters; it rejects the eccentric, the nerdy, and the badly dressed. In 02138, the frumpy physics concentrator who doesn’t know a Manolo Blahnik from...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell, | Title: Not In My Zip Code | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

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