Word: everydayness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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EVOLUTION OF A WELL-KNOWN INVENTION Everyday objects seldom spring fully formed into the world. They evolve, sometimes slowly, over centuries. Take the timepiece...
History books already include passages about Johnson's success as an African-American inventor, showing his work next to the everyday inventions of other black scientists and engineers who are relative unknowns: the man who invented refrigerated trucks, the woman who developed a machine for hair permanents or the man who patented the automatic traffic signal. Officials from the Patent Office, which reports that only 6% of patent applications come from blacks, hail Johnson as a role model and cite his Super Soaker to capture the imagination of schoolchildren...
Weiner is one of the elite minority of students who keep their own cars at Harvard. They suffer the everyday hassles of car ownership: expensive parking permits and minimal curbside space, unpredictable traffic and fearless pedestrians, even too-close encounters with wild animals...
...study classical music because I love it, but we all know that it occupies an increasingly smaller part of the everyday attention span. I hope that's a temporary thing. I hope it comes back, like natural fibers and vegetarian diets. I'm going to wait it out. I am interested in making people involved in actively engaging music, supporting the presence of music and musicians in their world. Ultimately, I want people to realize how lucky they are to be alive on a planet that has such wonderful music past, present and future...
...team cannot expect to field the same lineup again next year and simply hope that everyone has better seasons than they did in 2000. Recent acquisitions Dave Nillson and Chris Stynes were nice pickups, but they are platoon players at best and won't cut the mustard in the everyday lineup...