Word: impedimenta
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...much of the flavor of a land where alarm clocks lie buried with emperors and it is good form to have stained teeth. The Indo-China wing of the Kelly-Roosevelt Field Museum Expedition, headed by Harold Coolidge left remote Lao Kay early in 1929. With its impressive impedimenta packed on some ninety sturdy little ponies, tended by their mafous or native drivers, the safari toiled over the ridge of Tonkin and Laos. After several weeks of overland travel, the four American scientists embarked on frail native canoes and floated down the waters of the Nam Hu and later...
...intellectuals, Mohammed, an imagemaker, Voltaire, and finally Shaw. Naive but nobody's fool, the black girl questions everyone she meets but finds no satisfactory answers. The Gods of Genesis and Job enrage her and she attacks them with her knobkerry (that and a Bible are her only impedimenta). Christ she finds "a good-natured fellow who smiled whenever he could," but with a low opinion of women. Mohammed's equally masculine attitude disgusts her; she leaves them together, saying: "I shall not find God where men are talking about women." When she comes on Voltaire cultivating his garden...
...socialites signalled their bids with the twitch of a pencil, the jerk of a head. For six days the sale went on: rapiers, helmets, cannon, snaphaunces (immediate ancestor of flintlock muskets), silver candlesticks, paintings, ivory carvings, gilded chairs, diamond brooches, jade-handled daggers, bottles of perfume, all the opulent impedimenta of one of the most amazing families...
...ancestors on the S. S. Majestic with a portfolio of rare and valuable prints, a box full of strange balls and about 80 ancient & honorable golf clubs. There were warped cleeks, battered baffys, jiggers, brassies, spoons and nibicks, the whole making the finest collection of antique golfing impedimenta ever brought to the U. S. Soon they will occupy a special museum wing in the new cruciform James River Country Club near Newport News. After he had exhibited a print of what he believes to be the first recorded game of golf, reprinted from an illuminated Book of Hours...
...each department follows the recommendations all the impedimenta which formerly hindered the undergraduate in his endeavor for independent work will be cleared away. The formal course requirements will, in the words of the faculty report, be reduced to a "minimum consistent with effective instruction and the maintenance of standards." This means that in his Sophomore and Junior years the student will be able to give practically continual attention to his tutorial work and in his Senior year the honors man will have practically no hindrances to doing individual and original work. The new changes have a decidedly liberalizing effect; they...