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A·ver·y

(ā′və-rē), Oswald 1877-1955.
American bacteriologist noted for establishing (1944) that DNA is responsible for the transmission of heritable characteristics.
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I believe Miss Avery goes in for being a character; some old maids do." He lit a cigarette.
"Is Miss Avery uneducated classes?" Margaret asked, and found herself looking at the decoration scheme of Dolly's drawing-room.
"Or Miss Avery giving me a wedding present," said Dolly.
Weren't both of them and Miss Avery friends when Howards End, too, was a farm?"
Anyhow, he popped the question, and Miss Avery, she said
It had certainly come through the house and old Miss Avery. Through them: the notion of "through" persisted; her mind trembled towards a conclusion which only the unwise have put into words.
Avery's Farm, Sishe's--what they call the Common, where you see that ruined oak--one after the other fell in, and so did this, as near as is no matter.
"Oh, that reminds me," said Josie, "Queen's is to get one of the Avery scholarships after all.
When Avery Carlson rescued a severely burned horse from a kill pen in Oklahoma, she never thought that horse would become well enough not just to ride, but to win a blue ribbon in competition.
Judge Angela Sutkiewicz has denied Steven Avery's request over the 2005 killing of photographer Teresa Halbach in Wisconsin.
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