Word: bacillus
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From then on Emerson picked a careful way between the life of culture and the culture of life. The cranks besieged him. but he was impregnable. He continued to lecture far & wide. Far & wide he circulated, like a cultured bacillus, trying to infect the U. S. with some symptoms of a native civilization. He organized literary clubs, the Transcendental Club; with Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes. Agassiz, Dana he joined the Boston Saturday Club. He tried to introduce Whitman to his Boston friends but Lowell demurred?"a New York tough, a frequenter of low places." Finally his energies ran low; his memory...
There is on display at the Colonial Theatre an uneven morality play, write and enacted by George Bernard Shaw, and staged through the cooperation of the Theatre Guild and its actors. No longer does the old man of the English stage pretend to be a dramatist; his characters, from bacillus to the "sententious anchorite," are but the assorted speaking trumpets through which G. B. S. is announcing to the world his opinions on the war, the League of Nations, the excellencies of a vegetarian diet, Einstein, France and her "security," and H. G. Wells...
There is of course a modicum of plot, but when the bacillus, at the end of Act 1, announces that "The play is now virtually at an end, but the actors will discuss it at length for two acts more," some are willing to add with him that "the exits are all in order." Tuesday night no one followed his hint, though in the final soliloquy there were some who gave up and left. For only in the last act does Shaw cry out in a loud voice what his puppets (and most of them were but taken...
...formula of manufacture. Henry Spahlinger thus had money to live on and to prosecute his research. Heart of the Spahlinger bacteriological technique is his theory that germs must be bred in cultures which duplicate to fine detail the living conditions they find in their natural hosts. Thus the tubercle bacillus which attacks cows needs a different culture environment from the tubercle bacillus which attacks human beings, and both need different cultures from the bacillus which causes diphtheria. This philosophy has been too precious for most bacteriologists to accept. For that reason, but more so for his stubborn secrecy...
Ambitious President Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) of Harvard took Dr. Smith from George Washington University. At Harvard, Professor Smith showed that the bacillus which causes human tuberculosis is not the same bacillus which causes bovine tuberculosis. Children were frequently infected by the bovine type, through milk. Pasteurization of milk, that is, heating it as Pasteur heated wine to prevent spoilage, blocked that contamination. At Harvard he, among many other things, discovered serum sickness, which Paul Ehrlich called the Theobald Smithsche Phenomenon...