Word: decayed
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...University, he and James H. Shaw, assistant professor of Dental Medicine, have discovered that dental enamel is actually composed in part of living organic matter, not of purely inorganic matter, as was formerly supposed. This research has enabled them to learn considerable information about the causes of tooth decay...
...These discoveries," Sognnaes states make clearer what is involved in the decay of a tooth. The micro-organisms that are believed to cause decay. . . are much wider than the individual crystal and organic units that make up the enamel. Hence, before a micro-organism can invade the enamel, both the organic and the inorganic matter (or the bond between the two) must be destroyed or weakened in some...
...moral and political decay of the Byzantine Empire spreads like a cancer as his story progresses, but Duggan is moved neither to sentimental sermons nor to tedious explanations borrowed from some textbook. He knows, and makes the reader know, that after all. he writes of a day in which "if the officers are killed the men retire, in good order, towards the nearest wine-casks...
...changed its name on their map to "Cooperative Villas," but No Place paid no attention to that.) The county planners decided that "a loss of population is expected" and pronounced No Place "a bad financial risk." That meant that the county would neither replace houses that fell into decay nor build new ones for young couples. No Place had suffered the worst fate that any community can in an age of planners-it had been left out of plans. In 50 years, No Place would be nowhere...
...Furry on grounds of sanctity of conscience does not help to stop McCarthy's type of investigations. Nor will they stop if the Court upholds Furry's actions. The impasse such a decision would produce would lead to even more ranting in the dark by the investigators, with corresponding decay of university effectiveness and social liberties. Misuse of the Fifth Amendment led to a strong movement in state legislatures to rewrite it. The same could happen with the first...