Fifty-six percent of voters support the birth control coverage benefit, including 53 percent of Catholic voters, and 62 percent of Catholics who identify themselves as independents, according to a new Public Policy Polling Poll.
sylph (plural sylphs) ( 1 mythology) An invisible being of the air. 2  The elemental being of air, usually female. A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people. 1811, Mary Bruton, Self-Control (novel): Her heart fluttered with expectationâher step was buoyant with hope, and she sprung into the carriage with the lightness of a sylph.
Naphtha is the root of the word naphthalene. The second syllable of naphtha can also be recognised in phthalate. It also enters the word napalm from  na phthenic acid and palm itic acid, as the first napalm was made from a mixture of naphthenic acid with aluminium and magnesium salts of palmitic acid. 2nd century BCE Koine Greek religious text uses the word naphtha to refer to a miraculously flammable liquid. The subjects called the liquid nephthar, meaning purification, but note that most people call it naphtha (or Nephi).