Word: merest
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...never quite got rid of. He began the study of medicine, as most young men do, with a quickened pulse at the sight of the grinning skeletons of the school, and with his cheeks reflecting the whiteness of the hospital sheets-sights which had since become the merest commonplace with...
...work was. Indeed, the first principles of metaphysics are so apparent from a consideration of this work that they may be considered as finally established." Professor Blowne "thrusts aside the evolution theory," and herein will doubtless please many (e. g. Dr. McCosh); but the rest certainly sounds like the merest pretension...