Yet despite that popularity, in recent years he's become reduced – perhaps even more than Blyton – to little more than a punchline, with Biggles remembered merely as an aggregation of preposterous verbal tics ("By Jove, Bertie!").
No one yet knows whether these theories will be remembered merely as ingenious curiosities, like Kepler's linking the planetary orbits to the regular solids or musical phrases, or whether, like his three laws of planetary motion, they might turn out to be among the most significant advances in the history of astronomy".
They shared a determination to defy social mores in their work, as well as a dark, mordant wit, though Cummings is now all-too-often remembered merely for his beautiful, and somewhat sappy, love poems.
As we celebrate this Veteran's Day, we must remember that merely waving the flag and throwing money at the VA simply will not help our veterans.
Is it possible that what I remember is merely some friend of mine telling me she had a crush?
However, it may be useful to remember that merely using the same units for spatial and temporal intervals does not entail that space and time are treated "on a par" in special relativity; they are not, as is evident from the signature of the Minkwoski metric.
Calculations get a bit messy, but the arbitrage can make sense if (a) your borrowing rate is low enough; (b) the deferral is long enough (remember, deferral merely postpones the tax); and (c) your interest expense is deductible against high-bracket income.
But Pell remembers them merely complaining "in general terms" that the priest was "extremely difficult to deal with and disliked by parents, staff and children".
Yet it was not nearly enough, and risks being remembered as merely a papering over the European cracks.
Today, as Americans commemorate the war, it is worth remembering that merely calling it the Civil War disguises the fact that in this case, the victors did not write the history, for the victors had called it rebellion.
