A student may learn whole volumes of scientific wordology, and graduate from the school in which he has been educated with as little knowledge of the objects to which they apply as a barnacle has of ship building.

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The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.

So Lacy's parents had brought her to Johns Hopkins for a hemispherectomy, which is probably the most radical procedure in neurosurgery.