Word: decay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even if such a ban were issued, we would have to contend with at least another century of asbestos-induced diseases, as products now on the market gradually decay and release fibers into the surrounding environment...
...Brattle was firmly enough established by 1960 that it was time for Harvey the businessman to expand his holdings in Cambridge. The old University Theater was beginning to decay; Harvey bought it and had it slightly remodelled--the new "two-speed" chairs were installed, reducing the capacity from 1889 to 1689, the premises were cleaned, and prices were raised substantially. Manager Clarence "Bud" Kramer '56 explained the new philosophy (same as the old): "It will be your Hollywood films with some good foreign films spotted...
...Solitude. That book was self-contained: Garcia chronicled Macondo from its beginning to its destruction by an apocalyptic storm. Now he wants to see what would have happened if the apocalypse had proved false, if the people of Macondo had been forced to live through another century of heat, decay, and silence...
...Plain Dealer is practically unique among its seventeenth century counterparts. Whereas the plays of Etherege, Congreve and Farquhar are characterized by a lack of genuine emotion, a plot of less weight than their racy, epigrammatic wit, and an absence of realism, William Wycherley reversed these trends, hastening the decay of the comedy of manners. Pure intellect was replaced by feeling, pure wit by emotion. The Plain Dealer is an intriguing mixture of realism and artificiality, of emotion and intellect, lacking meanwhile the polished style and all-pervasive wit of the great masters...
...that was then cratered by the impact of the remaining debris. When the rain of rocks eventually ended some 3.9 billion years ago, the moon's surface was covered by great craters and basins. Other changes were still to come. Deep within the moon, heat from the slow decay of radioactive elements like uranium and thorium gradually built up, melting the once solid interior rock. Finally, between 3 billion and 4 billion years ago, lava broke through the hard outer crust in a great spasm of volcanic activity, possibly forming some new craters and flooding the great low-lying...