Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, Sophoulis extended the amnesty offer for a month. He had not much hope that it would succeed. Greek Communists had become more strident. Trumpeted one of the proclamations of their Central Committee: "It is the primordial duty for . . . Communists without delay to mobilize all their forces . . . and act. . . . The political intentions of our movement today can be realized from a military point of view...
...bedside, one learns to suffer fools gladly, to disagree and not be disagreeable, to listen to most preposterous nonsense, to act as a confidential family lawyer, and to act as a priest hearing confession...
...primitive Is sex? Most biologists have thought that bacteria, which are simple, one-celled organisms, multiply only by division. At Yale last week, Bacteriologist E. L. Tatum emerged from his lab waving proof that even bacteria sometimes act like male & female...
...Bacteria act that way only in rare genetic emergencies. Dr. Tatum selected two groups of Escherichia coli (bacteria which Jive in the intestines) and watched them. They multiplied normally by splitting in two, a solitary process. Then Dr. Tatum bombarded some of them with X rays and ultraviolet light. This damaged their insides. The metabolic cripples could still multiply by division (when coddled), but Dr. Tatum hoped that offended nature would somehow force them to repair their deficiencies...
Died. Joseph Arthur Padway, 56, general counsel of the A.F.L.; of a cerebral hemorrhage, after he collapsed while orating against the Taft-Hartley Act at the annual A.F.L. convention; in San Francisco...