Opinion ‘Salacious’ and other words that don’t quite mean what people think Certain words — “coruscating,” “pulchritude,” “bemused” — don’t mean what many people think they do.

The monochrome image was taken in wavelengths of infrared light centered at 930 nanometers; the false color view was created by combining images taken using filters sensitive to ultraviolet ...

Paul Frank's first fashion successes were like early Beatles hits--cheeky, packed with gently satiric humor and enthusiastically embraced by (mostly) girls and their smart alecky older sisters.

I looked it up and someone who has "pulchritude" is, roughly speaking, an attractive person. Thus the time has come to answer a question posed by a male friend of Applebaum's "where were they all ...

Hundred Years of Pulchritude at the Lutetia 2 minute read TINA WALSH March 31, 2010 12:00 AM EDT ...

No one who saw the pulchritude exhibited about the Yale campus and its environs during the past three days can have any sympathy with a suspension of the junior promenade. If Harvard has seen fit ...

Problems with Pulchritude Published: August 13, 2009 08:59Nirmala Janssen Follow us ...

Dec. 17, 1896 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from December 17, 1896, Page 4 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine ...