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His life story enhances this image of fragile purity: He's a late bloomer who didn't publish a mature work until his 50s and didn't become famous until his 60s.
This was a dictionary--a bizarre best seller--in which even the footnotes had footnotes, and whose pages, Grafton notes, "offer the reader only a thin and fragile crust of text on which to cross the deep, dark swamp of commentary."
Since the concerns the analysts raised were not new, you might see this as evidence that investors are now in the same fragile frame of mind as little kids who have stayed up way past their bedtimes.
As an adult, Patient 1 had a height of 186 cm with long arms and legs, a narrow highly arched palate and dental crowding, chest asymmetry and pectus deformity (upper sternum protrudes), hyperextensible large and small joints, arthritis, arachnodactyly, frequent thumb dislocations, pes planus, and thin, fragile skin.
The latter is quite critical especially to preserve fine and fragile cellular microextensions such as filopodia or retraction fibers [ 15, 16].