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...play no monopoly on that coalition. But we say this: Of all the constituent elements of the party to which Strauss must turn, we have the best organized membership; we have the best organized resources; and we have the best organized political apparatus...
...would require no lubrication. He first tried Teflon, but the material tended to wear badly in the hip joint. Then he made a serendipitous discovery. Although Charnley had turned away a salesman who tried to interest him in high-density polyethylene, his laboratory assistant, eager to use idle test apparatus, tried four samples of the tough plastic. The material tested so successfully that in 1962, Charnley adopted it for hip sockets...
...young; it's important to tap that flow before it is turned off. A teacher of writing and performance of poetry at Radcliffe, Ruth Whitman, once wrote--and Koch would agree--that children "are still close to the elemental sources, they are naturally honest, their mythmaking and imagemaking apparatus is close at hand." These seemed incontrovertible truths when I left with my brother-in-law from an idyllic farm west of Cleveland for the alternative school in the inner city where he teaches fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. But by the end of a single day in class...
Robin Schulberg '73, one of the leaders of the group, said during the demonstration, "The grievance against the school committee is that they're building a racist school system; they're putting money into the busing apparatus instead of into the schools themselves...
...taught at Cornell University after emigrating to the U.S., and his clownish alter ego taught at "Quirn." The Oxford English Dictionary directs the student to "Quern," which derives in its first definition from a variety of languages, including old High German, Swedish and Russian ("Zhernov"), and means "a simple apparatus for grinding corn." The second definition is "a large piece of ice." These are not illuminating; but "obsolete variant of kern" leads directly to "corn," and to "kernel," of which "cornel" is a disused form. Has the butterfly been caught? Not necessarily. It should not be overlooked that "kern...