Word: particular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retailing for as little as $54.50. Geiger counters click all the time because of "background radioactivity" caused by cosmic rays and the tiny amounts of radioactive materials present in most rocks. The prospector should first record the "background count"; any increase is interesting. "If the radioactivity of any particular rock is four times the background count," says the handbook, "a sample should be taken...
...together. The plan is to find out how the silkworms do it. Professor Williams is injecting mature worms with various amino acids which are made radioactive by carbon 14. After a while the worms start spinning their cocoons. If their silk turns out radioactive, it may prove that the particular amino acids injected by Professor Williams were used to form its protein...
...looked as if they wouldn't know their own fathers if they happened to walk into them. Other groups, apparently less confident of their memories, covered themselves with mustaches, hats, cloaks and grease paint so they wouldn't have to say hello in anybody in particular...
Paul Blanshard's "American Democracy and Catholic Power" deals with a specific example of the general problem of the special interest group in a democracy. What makes this particular special interest group worthy of individual consideration is: 1) its size, 2) the international and authoritarian nature of the hierarchy that controls it, and 3) the fact that, unlike most of the other special interest groups with which American Democracy is currently confronted, the Roman Catholic Church in its special interest role seeks not the economic advancement of its members but control over the morals, education, and free expression of members...
...later novels, James wrote: "Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had? . . ." The idea of experiences missed or untaken was the ghost that haunted Henry James...