Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bail out Mrs. Smith, but Dr. Smith refused to be sprung. If he got out of jail in Baton Rouge he would be clapped into jail in New Orleans, where he was wanted for forgery, and Baton Rouge offered him several inducements to stay. He was given a cell with a private bathtub and an electric fan, and when he complained that the setting sun got into his eyes he was moved to a cell with a better exposure...
...There is a great period of darkness in our understanding of what this tiny gangster does when he enters the body. He disappears for about 14 days after he enters the body and before he shows up in a living cell. It may be that a knowledge of his movements in that two weeks' spree will lead to some method of blocking his entrance...
Biologist Conklin remarks that Schleiden's theory of cell development was cockeyed in major respects, and he had an unpleasantly cavalier way of dealing with contemporaries and predecessors, some of whom were right where he was wrong. Schwann took over some of Schleiden's views and from error compounded further error...
Nature of the Egg. One of the first such controversies in which he engaged was over the widely held notion of late 19th-Century science that a fertilized egg before starting to grow by cleavage (cell division)-and even for a time afterwards -was just so much undifferentiated raw material of life-like a lump of butter, or a pile of butter balls. Indeed one biologist did compare the early cleavage cells to "balls in a pile," and pronounced the act of cleavage at this stage to be "a mere sundering of homogeneous materials capable of any fate." The start...
...outside of biology proper his preoccupations range from the ethics of science to the meaning of life, from democracy to educational psychology. It is characteristic that he does not go to California this week merely to take part in Stanford's symposium on the cell. In San Francisco next week he is scheduled to address the National Education Association on "Education for Democracy...