These days, multicolored block letters are most popular, he says, as are embellishments like blooming flowers and roaring lions.

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Students ride their bikes through manicured quads, past blooming flowers and statues by Rodin, to buildings named for benefactors like Gates, Hewlett, and Packard.

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It was painted in Argenteuil, where Monet lived between 1871 and 1878, depicts the artist's wife, Camille, reclined and reading amongst blooming flowers in an open meadow.

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Is it diminished in the face of the thousands of opinionated flowers blooming across the web?

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The birds are singing, the flowers are blooming and May Day is soon upon us.

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"All over the city, flowers are now blooming, providing nectar and pollen for all sorts of important bee species and other pollinators, " she said.

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Those who had purchased at the top of the market, and who would still see flowers as soon as the summer blooming season arrived, nevertheless refused to pay the balance on the exorbitant sums they had been foolish enough to agree to for their prize purchases in an overheated market.

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Blooming and opening meant the same thing in relation to flowers.

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