Word: bypath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carl Lyngholm, 17, reads elementary Russian, plays first clarinet in the San Diego Civic Youth Orchestra, and likes most subjects at San Diego high school except something called "basic citizenship." He won third prize ($5,000) for a study of an exotic mathematical bypath, Boolean algebra...
...diverticulum (Latin for a small bypath) of the large bowel is a little pouch or sac formed by pressure inside the gut, forcing the inner layer (mucosa) through a weak spot in the outer, muscular layers. It may be no bigger than a BB shot, or it may be the size of a plum with a stalklike neck. If the neck is extremely narrow, fecal matter forced into the diverticulum will stay there, setting up an ever-present threat of infection and making the condition harder to detect since the barium used to get X-ray contrast may not penetrate...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS: "Yeats's father once confided to my father: 'Willie has found a very profitable little bypath in poetry'; and this was fair enough...