Word: advent
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Similarly, the present-day attitude toward disease has been tempered by modern medicine. Many of the ogres of the past, including small pox, polio, and tuberculosis, have been tamed or eliminated. With the advent of microsurgery, even chainsaws and lawnmowers have lost their element of danger. Death has been driven back to the frontier of old age, and so become distant and less real...
...Advent Jazz Vespers: Old Cambridge Baptist Chuirch, Friday...
Kiely, Adams House master, said he and Melaver will "look at early prose narratives that nowadays remind us of novels." The class will examine works written before the 18th century advent of the novel that have qualities that are traditionally associated with the novel, Kiely said...
Although ridership on the regionals is up since the advent of deregulation, the number of airlines has been falling because of mergers and bankruptcies. In 1984, 26.1 million people flew on them, and one industry watcher believes that by the end of 1986 the number will grow to 45.8 million. Still, 29 of the 208 commuter lines went out of business between 1978 and 1984. An additional 50 are expected to fail before the end of the decade...
...first to seek the ill-fated ocean liner. From the moment the ship plunged to the bottom, people have dreamed of salvaging the vast riches said to be on board, but the great depths and stormy waters of the North Atlantic were thought to be insurmountable obstacles. Even the advent of deep-sea sonar equipment did not initially hold forth much promise for narrowing the search. Although the Titanic is believed to have ^ gone under at 41 degrees 46 min. north and 50 degrees 14 min. west, nobody has ever been sure of the exact coordinates; an error of only...