Word: agar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those who thought they were signing up for a controlled petting party soon learned their mistake. Dr. Bryan persuaded youths and adults of both sexes to plant their lips firmly against sterile glass slides or gooky agar plates while he held a stop watch. After intervals ranging from two to ten seconds, he took the specimen and cultured it to see how many colonies of bacteria had been transferred. His chief findings...
...Jersey's Rutgers University, amid test tubes and agar dishes in which he is trying to extract still more antibiotics from soil molds, Waksman said: "I feel proud in justifying the ancient saying - I forget where it comes from - 'And from the earth shall come thy salvation...
...Angeles judge gave John Agar, ex-husband of Shirley Temple, five months in jail for persistent drunken driving...
...Escorts: "Just now, No. 1 escort is Mr. Billy Wallace, the young and conspicuously eligible son of Mrs. Herbert Agar. The Princess, who sees a lot of him in town, will be staying at his country home for the Goodwood races...
Died. Edward Agar Horatio Nelson, fifth Earl Nelson, 90, great-great nephew of Britain's Admiral Nelson (1758-1805) and last to get the "perpetual" ?5,000-a-year pension to Nelson's heirs; in London. The Socialist government unilaterally canceled Britannia's promise to the man who made her Mistress of the Seas...