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The avidity with which students pursue extracurricular activities is mocked in the film Rushmore, which was co-written by another St. Mark's alumnus, Owen Wilson, set at a fictional cross between St. Mark's and a rival high school in Houston, St. John's School, and filmed on the campus of another Houston rival, the Kinkaid School ; the film features a protagonist who participates in dozens of clubs and activities.
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The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.
He had been captivated by Head's accounts of the works of Ewald Hering and had absorbed his views on colour vision and the nature of vital processes in living matter with avidity.
It was his fortune furthermore to live in an age when occasions of dispute were legion ; and he threw himself with avidity into their several aspects.
Wolf, however, pursued his studies in the university library, from which he borrowed with his usual avidity.
The Nightjar does not hunt with open mouth, as often depicted, but the huge gape opens wide for large crepuscular insects, such as noctuid moths and dor-beetles, which are snapped up with avidity.
:*" The atmosphere of the book is admirable and the story will be read with avidity by all.
There is, admittedly, something unattractive about the avidity with which society now pores over every detail the Collyer brothers vigorously withheld from public scrutiny ...
He is particularly fond of otters, which he swallows in great numbers and with considerable avidity.
In many respects he reminds us of the imperial philosopher Marcus Aurelius, whose works he studied with avidity, and whose influence is stamped upon his own productions.
He was in such demand that Davison, in an 1860 biographic sketch, noted that " he became one of the most fashionable professors of the day, and his lessons were both sought with avidity and remunerated at a rate of payment which knew no precedent except in the instance of John Cramer.
I read with avidity all of his writings.
Also, J. R. R. Tolkien said he read the book " with avidity ", and praised it as a work of philosophy, religion, and morality.
Michael Doheny states that “ such was the sensation created by the proceedings that two publishers, one in Dublin and one in Belfast, brought out reports, in pamphlet form, which were read all over the country with the greatest avidity ”.
Routine work proved distasteful to him, and he read with avidity the works of the chevalier Folard and other theoretical writers on war, and of Rousseau.
Also J. R. R. Tolkien said he read the book " with avidity ", and praised it as a work of philosophy, religion, and morality.
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On 6 January 1762, he wrote to Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein, " We ought now to think of preserving for my nephew, by way of negotiation, whatever fragments of my territory we can save from the avidity of my enemies ", which means, if words mean anything, that he was resolved to seek a soldier's death on the first opportunity.
The underfill theory involves activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, which leads to an increase in absorption of sodium from the renal tubule ( termed renal sodium avidity ) mediated by aldosterone, which acts on mineralocorticoid receptors in the distal convoluted tubule.
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Due to its polymeric nature, IgM possesses high avidity, and is particularly effective at complement activation.
This phenomenon is probably due to the high avidity of IgM that allow it to bind detectably even to weakly cross-reacting antigens that are naturally occurring.
This adjuvant system is much less toxic and less potent than FCA but generally induces satisfactory amounts of high avidity antibodies against protein antigens.
Multivalency is an advantage in some applications, for example where avidity effects improve the ability of molecules attached to streptavidin to detect specific T cells.
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In human populations, immune ( vaccinated ) individuals exert selective pressure for single point mutations in the hemagglutinin gene that increase receptor binding avidity, while naive individuals exert selective pressure for single point mutations that decrease receptor binding avidity.
Although antibodies show preferential avidity for specific epitopes, they may partially or weakly bind to sites on nonspecific proteins ( also called reactive sites ) that are similar to the cognate binding sites on the target antigen.
Adjuvants for vaccine use only need to produce protective antibodies and good systemic memory while those for antiserum production need to rapidly induce high titer, high avidity antibodies.
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Tom Brannon had caught up with the outfit shortly after the Maguires joined it, which had been at midday.
He'd mounted up immediately and raced with a revolver ready toward the spot from which he'd estimated the shot had come.
It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.
He slammed into the wall, bounced back, and caught Curt with a roundhouse right which sent him spinning.
Curt caught him flush on the nose with a blow which started at the floor.
Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.
Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.
I had a one-room studio which overlooked an ancient courtyard filled with flowers and plants, blooming everlastingly in the southern sun.
The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.
She had touched her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual.
The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.
In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.
From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.
He came within an ace of being riddled with bullets during his long fight with the Doolin gang which terrorized Oklahoma in the 1890's.
That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.
The youth with the snake had a natural pride and joy of life which appealed to the woman.
The drummer flogged the gourd with frantic intensity as the dancers began the calinda, a sensual gyration which had long been a favorite of voodoo practitioners and their disciples in the Louisiana slave compounds.
So Dandy Brandon trustingly entered the house with Delphine Lalaurie and trudged up the rear steps to the attic room which was to be his new home.
I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.
They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
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