Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called Dr. Richard Stone, a pediatric ophthalmologist and one of the authors of the report. Practically the first words out of his mouth were, "We didn't prove anything." Then he went on to explain what he and his colleagues had found. They were following up a clue from the poultry industry, which has long known that baby chicks grow faster if you leave the lights on 24 hours a day. It turns out that their eyeballs grow longer as well--and long eyeballs is a pretty good description of what causes nearsightedness, also called myopia, in humans...
Wendy Charon '99, a member of DG, said she learned about the event through word-of-mouth from her sorority sisters...
Wendy Charon '99, a member of DG, said shelearned about the event through word-of-mouth fromher sorority sisters...
...great deal that seems merely shabby, not monstrous, and not puzzling enough to require three wagonloads of explication. The author may have been right, incidentally, not to present this rough man's thoughts in rough dialect. For long paragraphs, however, the words that come out of Watson's mouth are, somewhat jarringly, the worthy, scholarly, perceptive, always interesting, late 20th century observations of Peter Matthiessen. About his quirky trilogy a reader might conclude: brilliant, obsessive, panoramic--and two novels too many...
...have to check with anybody before they cut a deal with Jackson. They just did it, providing him with instant gratification and themselves with a propaganda bonanza that typically includes the reverend's fervently imploring the U.S. President to give them a call. If Jackson were to bad-mouth the butcher with whom he was just holding hands and praying, the next one just might turn him away...