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...into Japanese homes. Many people were rounded up: language teachers and martial-arts instructors as well as labor leaders and businessmen. My future father-in-law was arrested at rifle point and incarcerated in one of 10 relocation camps. Second-generation Japanese-American soldiers in the 298th and 299th Regiments were asked to leave the service, their rifles taken away...
There was the famous first meeting, nearly a year ago to the day, when he and his troops -- Box Jox -- had dazzled photographers, reporters and filmmakers from every corner of the nation, only to see The Crime streak to its 299th consecutive 23-2 football victory...
...slaughtered St. Louis twice, 8-0 and 9-1, outskated Brown 5-1, and whipped U.N.H., 6-1. Harvard destroyed Northeastern, 12-0, and routed Dartmouth, 9-4, to give coach Cooney Weiland his 299th victory...
...summer passed unobtrusively and Harvard soon began its 299th year. Almost all other activities between the opening of the Class of 1938's sophomore year and the beginning of the centenary celebration--already looming on the University's horizon--fell in the shadow of a many faceted dispute over the Teacher's Oath Act, which required most instruction in Massachusetts to swear that they would uphold the national and state constitution Kirtley F. Mather, professor of geology, struck back at the Massachusetts Legislature's structure as "unwarranted and dangerous to democracy." Mather claimed to speak for many Faculty members when...
Beadle and Tatum irradiated masses of mold with X rays and searched for mutations in the spores. On the 299th try they got a mold that would not grow unless it was fed vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine). The normal mold makes vitamin B-6 for itself. They traced this deficiency to an X-ray-damaged gene that failed to produce the necessary enzyme (organic catalyst) for producing B6. This provided a means of studying genetic changes by corresponding changes in the organism's ability or failure to produce specific chemicals-thus giving genetics a new exactness and turning...