Word: consisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While some sophisticated knowledge of botany is required, most of the plant doctors' cures consist of applying rudimentary good sense. Often they only have to keep overly zealous owners from asphyxiating their plants with overdoses of affection, most commonly in the form of too much water or fertilizer...
...reactors to sell to institutions and industry and for use in apartment buildings. He is also developing a smaller model, the size of a flashlight, that he hopes to market for homeowners and motorists at $50 to $100 each. Now Cottell is experimenting with a new emulsion that will consist of 55% oil, 30% water and 15% sludge, the slushy sediment produced by partially treating sewer wastes. Recycled sewage, he says, may well be a fuel of the future...
That may be the reason why, as Nabokov explains in the preface to Strong Opinions, the interviews which make up the bulk of the book all consist of written answers to written questions. Suspicious of alterations in phrase or context, he refuses to give interviews "off the Nabocuff." He rejects the illusions of "bogus informality" and "colorful details." He has made sure that his words are bright and fresh, as crisp and carefully re-written, in the interviews, letters to the editor, and critical pieces assembled in Strong Opinions, as they always are in his novels...
Comets, in fact, are nowhere near as large as planets. Their central structure, or nucleus, is usually no more than a few miles in diameter; it is believed to consist largely of frozen gases-mainly water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide and ammonia, and perhaps some hydrocarbons-and dust particles. That, at least, is the commonly accepted "dirty snowball" theory, originally proposed by Harvard's Whipple in 1950. But there are those who take exception to Whipple. British Astronomer Raymond A. Lyttleton prefers his own "gravel-bank" theory, which holds that the cometary nucleus is really a loose mass...
WOMEN in at least two Houses, Adams and Lowell, have tried in the last several months to form women's groups. Nothing but their self-definition as "women's groups" is unusual; most activities consist of speakers' programs or social activities...