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...plants this process is achieved by a catalyst, chlorophyll, which uses energy from sunlight to make the food on which all life, plant and animal, depends. In this sense, the animal world has always been considered a great parasite upon the plant world. The catalyzing enzymes in the liver, equivalent of chlorophyll in plants, are still undiscovered, but the new discovery indicates that, although man is parasitic, he is at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Animals as Good as Plants | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...your concluding paragraph you made a slight theological error in saying that: "For a century now there has been an attempt to bring these same practical reforms into being through the medium of force rather than religion. Perhaps it will turn out eventually that the Church is a better catalyst of progress than the Communist revolution." May it not be indeed that the Church of England is identifying itself with the Communist revolution --against a Nazi fascism, in case of defeat:-- a Domestic fascism, in case of victory? The stone which the Crimson rejected might become the head stone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/15/1941 | See Source »

...century now there has been an attempt to bring these same practical reforms into being through the medium of force rather than religion. Perhaps it will turn out eventually that the Church is a better catalyst of progress than the Communist revolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liberal Liturgy | 3/11/1941 | See Source »

...finest eating tuna, is a wayward fish. Sometimes mistaken for a porpoise, he was until a few years ago the prize of the California fishers' catch. Then he disappeared from those waters." In 1935 famed stubble-headed Oceanographer Dr. Thomas Gordon Thompson, aboard his floating laboratory Catalyst, spied schools of albacore in the warm, blue waters of the Japanese Current 100 miles off the Oregon-Washington coast. He told Seattle fisherfolk of his find, and by 1937, 100 to 150 boats were at work in the new gold mine. Last year Oregon and Washington tuna-men hooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHERIES: Fugitive Albacore | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...from His Majesty for his "brilliant" work as Foreign Minister. The Count also returned to Rome on Mr. Phillips' heels, and before week's end the deep concern of Mussolini, Ciano & Co. to delay real fighting was clearly apparent. This week talk increased about Mussolini as a catalyst to resolve the impasse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Poor and Reluctant | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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