Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swamped Raft. After that, the heaving arena between ship and plane became the scene of desperate endeavor. The Bibb laid down oil slicks. A bigger, 15-man raft was maneuvered up to the plane, loaded and gotten out to open water where a small boat pulled passengers aboard. Three loads-seven people, then ten, then eleven -jumped or were pushed out of the plane into the raft. It was wild work...
...blood had washed back, naturally cast the evidence in the familiar and dreadful form of The Trial. The world, with one war still red under its nails and another beating in its belly, knew, more or less subconsciously, that it would have to build a prisoner's dock bigger than the subcontinent of India, that the crime was not contained by geography, and that the less the crime was understood the more it would infect the whole of humanity...
...Bigger Game. Viruses are proteins, and are therefore made chiefly of amino acids. By delicate chemical methods, Stanley's group knocked out or added amino acids. Vigorous viruses became weak. Mild viruses turned into virulent killers. In one case a transformed virus transmitted its new character to its offspring. For the first time, man had succeeded in changing a virus' heredity...
...Stanley is stalking even bigger game. Viruses are very much like genes, the submicroscopic particles in living cells which control heredity. It is possible, Stanley suggested last week, that slight changes in a gene's amino acids might cause changes in heredity. If so, could man control his own evolution by tinkering with his genes? Says Dr. Stanley: "Perhaps . . . knowledge of this type could affect the destiny of all living things...
...rule of the survival of the fittest. But Petrilo's is a different prognosis, although it involves almost as old a principle, namely that technological progress constitutes a social menace. The new record ban, according to his announcement, is not just a means of obtaining for musicians a bigger share of the $210,000,000 annual income from recordings, but a move designed to get rid of the institution permanently as a job-reducing evil...