Word: inertly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power of speech. But his mind was as keen as ever, and he gave his colleagues detailed notes on the course of his disease. The devoted doctors at the Institute took turns sleeping in his house every night, came over in a band of five to carry his heavy, inert body from his study to his bedroom. Within a few months Dr. Tilney taught himself to scribble with his left hand, in six months wrote the entire manuscript of a two-volume masterpiece, The Brain from Ape to Man. When it was published in 1928, many scientists acclaimed...
...outdone, Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. announced that its "elastic Vinylite" (vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate resins) was being made into chemically inert beer pipes, men's shoes, babies' diapers, bedroom slippers, shower curtains, aprons, waterproof sheeting, women's hats, chair covers, card-table covers, insulation...