Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seedlings have ghost-white roots and little white spikes (the coleoptiles) which envelop the embryo leaves. Thimann cuts off the coleoptiles, trims their points, and strings the tiny hollow cylinders on the hairlike teeth of a comb. Then he puts them in water containing a little sugar and indoleacetic acid (a growth-promoting substance). He measures them under a microscope and tucks them away in darkness...
...cells grow for a day or so, "eating" the sugar and acid. They grow in isolation, uninfluenced by the complex substances which would normally reach them from the oat seed. Professor Thimann can experiment on them, and know what he is doing...
...worried debate, the conferees gloomily dissected their topic, agreed chiefly on one thing: the need for more research. Some suggestions: movies of fluoroscope views of the stomach to determine whether fleeting stomach movements could be used to diagnose cancer, studies of possible relations between cancer and heredity, hormones, hydrochloric acid in the stomach...
...gave the back of its hand to Alan Moorehead, who had just quit the Express to write more books. The Express warned its readers that perhaps the biography was not so authentic after all (though most of Fleet Street guessed that Monty had read and approved it). In an acid review in the Express, Brigadier A. H. Head (retired), a Conservative M.P., snorted that some passages dealing with top-level goings-on "are filled with inaccuracies and even distortions. [They] have that gossipy, irresponsible touch associated more with the works of [Harry] Butcher and [Ralph] Ingersoll...
...Detroit's cosmopolitan Petoskey section, hoodlums last week systematically scarred the windows of 41 kosher butcher shops with acid. Apparently well-organized, the vandals carried specially insulated buckets, drove cars with license plates covered. Police had no clue as to their identity...