Word: preservationism
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Priest and Peasant. He is not indulgent. The book remorselessly records a people drowning in paradox and blarney. Smothering religious piety coexists with savage sectarian hatreds. The calamitous failure of subsistence farming in the 19th century has ensured the preservation of exactly the same kind of subsistence farming in the...
He said that the preservation of the fetus in Formalin, a liquid solution of formaldehyde, dehydrated the fetus so that it weighed less at the autopsy than it did at the time of the operation.
Homans cited a list of scientific papers on the effect of preservation in Formalin on tissue weight and, after establishing that Ward was familiar with none of them, suggested that the doctor was not qualified to speculate on the age of the fetus.
I firmly believe there is an equally intelligent human race "way out there" that perhaps is a little wiser in ecological preservation than we.
As the cast took its curtain calls, the audience clamored for more. There were guesses as to whether the Kinks would encore with "Victoria," or Act I's "One of the Survivors." That the Kinks did not return should not have been surprising in the least. Nothing followed because nothing...