Word: catholicon
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...self-consciously and radically secular culture, especially at a place like Harvard, the precepts and promises of religion have diminished appeal. Limiting their perspectives to this world, youth understandably can see politics—once shorn of the ostensible cynicism of the older generations—as the catholicon of their...
...even the most intrusive measures will not be foolproof: there is no verification catholicon. But perfect verification is as illusory as it is unnecessary. National security requires only that governments be able to detect militarily significant violations early enough so that they can do something about them. "Adequate" verification is indispensable to reducing the risks. Recent reports from the negotiating tables suggest that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have awakened to that fact...
...copy of the Book of Ruth from the first dated edition of the Bible, printed at Mainz in 1462, is in the Treasure Room, and is from the third edition of the Bible ever printed. With this book is a volume of the Catholicon, printed at Mainz in 1640, and generally thought to be the work of Gutenberg. This book, a very fine copy of the fourth book ever printed with a date, is part of the fifteen the century collection of J. M. Hunnewell '01. The colophon, or final paragraph of the book, usually containing the place and date...
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