Word: ares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is a splendid denizen of the arctic deeps. The young, three or four feet long at birth, are black; the adults, 16 to 18 feet long, are milky white. They have highly developed blood systems in the chest region, and their brains are plentifully supplied...
Dr. George Crile, 75, famed, far-ranging surgeon and biological researcher, and his associates at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation are interested in comparing the major energy-controlling organs-brain, heart, thyroid and adrenal glands-of various energetic animals. They have studied specimens of 3,700 species, including the featherless biped...
In World War II the British are taking no chances of missing the useful needle among the preposterous straws of the haystack. In the Ministry of Supply an Invention Board has been set up to collect and consider, not only ideas submitted directly to Government departments, but also those sent...
In neutral Washington suggestions are pouring into the War and Navy Departments and to the Patent Office. The military and naval authorities are chary of discussing these whizzbangs, but the details of a patented idea naturally become public knowledge. Some U. S. war patents:
With their ear-windows the Clarks were first to demonstrate (in 1930) that bruised lymphatic glands have regenerative power (the recuperating glands crawled right over the edge of the glass); that arteries and veins are bridged by blood vessels larger than capillaries. Other scientists, borrowing the now classic ear-window...