Word: amoeba
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...first-year biology students, the amoeba is one of the oldest, simplest and most fascinating forms of animal life. To men of the U.S. armed forces on duty in countries where sanitation is primitive, the amoeba is a treacherous foe which can infiltrate their digestive tracts and cause dysentery or death. Last week 1,490 employees of the Singer Manufacturing Co.'s plant in South Bend, Ind. found themselves, with their families and friends, in all-out war against the lowly amoeba, with no truce in sight...
Perhaps one out of every ten in the U.S. population carries a few amoebae in his bowels for most of his life, and they never bother him. So doctors did not think it significant when Harry J. Myer, 51, a Singer worker from Grovertown, who died last November of a "liver abscess," was found to have had amoebiasis. But then technicians of the South Bend Medical Foundation, who make the pathology tests for most of the city's doctors, began to find amoeba in more and more stool samples. They reported this to Health Officer F. R. Nicholas Carter...
...small office in the Biology Laboratory these days sits an assistant professor of Botany who has hardly glanced at a microscope or fiddled with an amoeba for weeks. The assistant professor likes to work on his own research projects as much as the next man, but he has become a martyr to the cause of getting Harvard men into medical schools. As the professor in charge of Biology, he has been deluged all fall by pre-meds needing recommendations from science professors in support of their applications to medical schools...
Spotlight on Europe. As the centuries whisk by, Sédillot takes only 18 pages to wrench Man out of the amoeba and plunk him down on the banks of the Nile. For the next 20 pages, history flashes from the Indus to the Mediterranean like a restless spotlight, fixing for a moment on King Hammurabi of Babylonia, the empire of Assyria, the fabulous and frivolous Palace of Knossos, and the Phoenician masters...
...Life of an Amoeba...