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A hardcover time capsule where everyone's future looks suspiciously optimistic.
means An annual book, usually produced by a school, that collects photographs, signatures, and records of a particular year's events and people.
from Straightforward compound of 'year' + 'book,' first applied to annual reference volumes and almanacs before American schools, in the 1800s, adopted it for their end-of-year commemorative albums — a tradition that's stuck ever since.
- origin
- US high schools popularized them in the 1880s
- superlatives
- most likely to succeed rarely does
- signatures
- have a nice summer means you barely spoke
- shelf life
- ignored for decades, then devastating at reunions