Word: singularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...singular. An account of eating and drinking with a lot of fornication accompanied by conversations on the lowest level, with some slight intelligence but no ideas, and nothing else-and yet it seems a slice of life, and you are not bored with details of an ordinary day. It reminds me of a reflection that I often make on how large a part of the time and thoughts of even the best of us are taken up by animal wants. ... But then this lad could write this book, which must be a work...
...singular and ideal" healing ointment for severe burns-long sought by good physicians-was announced last fortnight by Dr. Thomas F. P. Walsh of Chicago's Mercy Hospital. He spoke before Cincinnati's Institutum Divi Thomae, * whose staff, directed by Dr. George Speri Sperti, produced in their laboratory the ointment Dr. Walsh tested in the hospital. Dr. Sperti believes that the research work which produced the new treatment will "go down in history as second to none other, including the work of Pasteur...
Perhaps people were finding out that there are not numbered freedoms but only freedom. Patrick Henry did not ask for Nos. 1 to 4, nor for Nos. 3, 5, 7 and 9. He simply used the singular when he said (1775): "As for me, give me liberty or give me death." No one has yet managed to vulgarize that phrase...
Japanese has no singular or plural, no gender. A noun never changes its form...
Everywhere-and the R.A.F. was striking out in daylight sweeps as well as in night bombings all over western Europe-there was a singular lack of opposition. A year ago it was heralded as a feat if three R.A.F. flyers scooted over Occupied France, but last week they were over the Continent by the hundreds...