Word: epochally
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...patient lived only two months after the treatment, but in that interval she was up & about, talked almost normally, and enjoyed movies and baseball games. This epoch-making treatment has been used so far on only half a dozen patients. All that Drs. Sweet and Farr will say is that the results in the last two cases were most encouraging...
...live in [a non-humanist] epoch, and we have the abstract artists we deserve. Like an emetic, they have purged us of a great deal of silly 19th Century sentiment; like a professor of anatomy, they have revealed the permanent, the timeless bones beneath the perishable flesh. Yet the perishable flesh, in all its ephemeral weakness, will assert itself again. The body can be purified by an emetic, but it can't be nourished...
...besides, followed the course and the direction of cosmic developments and . . . pointed to their beginning in time some five billion years ago. Thus, with that concreteness which is characteristic of physical proofs, it has confirmed the contingency of the universe and also the well-founded deduction as to the epoch when the cosmos came forth from the hands of the Creator...
...autobiography at 66, The Preacher and I (Crown; $4), is the story of an epoch as well as of a life...
...stay retired. He decided to open a store in London, because "London is the greatest and richest city in the world and contains six million discerning inhabitants." When Selfridge's threw open its doors in 1909, London newspapers hailed the $2,000,000 building as ushering in "an epoch in London life"; the Times was moved to reassure its readers that the store's huge and wonderful plate-glass windows did not make the structure unsafe. Throngs marveled at Selfridge's 130 departments, its vast restaurants, rest rooms, writing rooms and six acres of selling space. "Visitors...