Word: akins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parts at the University of Oregon last week. An electrical current drifting through a tank of many compartments did the splitting and neatly deposited each fraction in a separate cubicle. Since bios actuates the growth of yeast as hormones actuate the growth of animals and since bios seems closely akin to vitamins ("food hormones"), it may be that one or more of the bios fractions are common to both vitamins and hormones. That possibility has tremendous significance for biochemistry. It also has great import for Professor Roger John Williams, 37, of the University of Oregon, who performed last week...
Harvard men have invented a new gambling game akin to stock market lotteries, baseball pools and clearance house totals, a CRIMSON reporter has discovered. Not only that but they have succeeded in combining business with pleasure, and pursue the Goddess of Chance in the classroom...
What might seem a Utopian scheme of University organization has been adopted by Johns Hopkins college recently. The plan, akin to the system soon to be put into effect at the University of Chicago, provides for the abolition of grades in courses, complete freedom of choice for the student within the selected field of his work, and the substitution of frequent conferences with professors for lectures and written quizzes. A comprehensive examination at the end of the student's work determines whether or not he is graduated...
...Constitution is challenged. . . . Even if this opinion meets with a cold reception in the Appellate courts, we hope it will at least have the effect of focussing the country's thought upon the neglected method of considering constitutional amendments in conventions. We have often wished for some statute akin to mortmain to remove the dead hand of tradition from the domain of ideas. . . ." Putting aside "the stereotyped method of constitutional interpretation and construction" and the judicial principle of citing superior decisions (stare decisis] Judge Clark declared: "We are quite willing to stand flatfootedly on our thesis that the scientific...
Probably some wave force, akin to light, electric or heat waves, is the ultimate essential. Probably that unknown force cooks or orients the primordial elements into the mutual relations they must have to be "alive." Such is the path of theory on which Dr. Crile, who believes that Life is an electrical phenomenon (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926), has been toiling...