by means of

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Childless and conscious that his imperial predecessors had selected their successors by means of adoption, Hadrian adopted a man in his 50s, who became Antoninus, and instructed that man to adopt, in turn, the 16-year-old Marcus, along with another child, Lucius Ceionius Commodus.

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Eventually he was offered a post at the Cavendish laboratory—the site of the discovery of the electron in 1897 and the first experimental splitting of the atom in 1932—to work on X-ray crystallography, by means of which the structure of proteins could be investigated.

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Although Clay believed they could advance by means of education, he regarded that as a very gradual process that would need to be carefully managed by whites.

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By means of bribery and persuasion and threats, Madame Babushkinov had finally convinced her to stop acting like a coward and get out of bed.

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It had no earpieces, as modern eyeglasses do, but stayed on by means of a pinching mechanism that tightly gripped the bridge of the wearer’s nose.

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