Word: perishings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...folk hero to his peers." Moreover, he insists, even socialized medicine could not bring back the house call, end unnecessary tonsillectomies or make $5,000 operations a thing of the past. For his resourceful fellow physicians would "never allow the manner of life to which they have become accustomed perish from these shores...
...detectable physical decline over periods ranging from three to 13 years. Nor are new emotional and mental disorders very likely in old age: true senility is uncommon, and only 1% of the elderly can expect to become demented. Says Comfort: "The human brain does not shrink, wilt, perish or deteriorate with age.* It normally continues to function well through as many as nine decades...
...Perish the thought. If they were allowed to do so, who would tend to the affairs of the parish-bingo, Cadillac raffles, trips to Las Vegas, St. Patrick's Day dances...
Publish or perish is a nationwide academic syndrome, but teaching ability also plays a major role in the hiring of assistant professors, according to a nationwide study released yesterday...
...noble Indian who would predominate. He became decorative in the late 17th century and positively rococo in the 18th, peering from cartouches, dallying under formalized palms. The ideas of Rousseau transmuted him into a red-skinned Cato or Brutus garbed in instinctive rectitude. And as he began to perish along the white frontier, the theme of racial destruction in a wild, vast landscape evoked lamentations from romantic artists who had never been there-especially from Delacroix, whose Les Natchez, 1824-35, is an American cousin to his Massacre at Chios...