cut one’s eyeteethTo gain knowledge or understanding; to become sophisticated or experienced in the ways of the world; alsoto have one’s eyeteethmeaning ‘to be worldly-wise or aware.’ This expression, which dates from the early 1700s, derives from the fact that the eyeteeth are cut ...
which is housed in the Senckenberg Museum in Germany, are the fossil remains of conifer needles, twigs, seeds, and fruits.Similar finds in Corythosaurus specimens from Alberta, Canada, have also been reported, indicating that at least two kinds of Late Cretaceous hadrosaurs fed on the sorts of...
I signed up for an online course, “From Autobiography to Illustrated Story.” The goal is to produce a short, illustrated book about an object that we still have from childhood: its provenance and meaning to us. I have precious few objects to choose from. The yellow Tonka truck. A doll...
One of my favorite postcards might be the one that I found the most confounding. A card in which the message on the back simply reads “nothing at all to say” signed “PAT.” A message carrying virtually no meaning to anyone other than perhaps Clarence Korn, who received the card in ...
In any case, I ate a reasonable amount of the meal, even the gluten-ous roll, packed it up, and grabbed some “to-go” silverware, just in case we crossed path with our unhoused friend. The whole time, I was hoping that he had left his corner for the evening. I wanted the food...
Housed in the Shanxi Museum, Taiyuan, China. Full size image Thus, in the water-and-land paintings, Hārītī embodies three forms: Hārītī (Guizimu), Helidi, and Helidinan. Why does Hārītī in this set of water-and-land paintings have three images? Thus far, a scholarly consensus ...
et al. Seroepizootiology of Helicobacter pylori gastric infection in nonhuman primates housed in social environments. J. Clin. Microbiol. 33, 1492–1495 (1995). Google Scholar Dubois, A. et al. Natural gastric infection with Helicobacter pylori in monkeys: a model for spiral bacteria infection ...
The Charter will be part of that strategy, which will be overseen by Healey and Al Carns, the people and veterans minister. There's evidence that some men and women quit the military due to being housed in poor-quality homes - something the government wan...
44. Larger numbers are said to be built upon smaller numbers.44.[ I ]【定位】That is, these smaller numbers are the basis of larger numbers.45. It takes great efforts for children to grasp the concept of number words.45....
Arguably, this account is spuriously elaborate. It might seem simpler and clearer to account for peroratives as one of the many kinds of indirection that can be housed in the category of a speaker’s perlocutionary force; then we would be done.Footnote10But the considerations assembled here hi...