Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since last May the National Broadcasting Co., pricked by FCC (TIME, May 12, Oct. 20), has swelled gently in two directions like a cell about to divide. Last week the outlines of approaching division became clearer. NBC announced separate staffs for its Red and Blue networks, announced further that the Blue Network Co. would provisionally become a subsidiary of RCA on the same footing as NBC, and more importantly let it be known that various prospective buyers were dickering for the Blue. If such a deal goes through, NBC's Red and the Blue Network Co. will be genuine...
...tremendously important part in evolution but the survival of the fittest does not always mean the survival of the strong, the predators, the parasites or even the adequately defended organisms." Sheer struggle tends to be supplanted by cooperation, Emerson observed, in each evolutionary step upward from the single cell to the many-celled organism to the family to societies...
...naked cell lived in less optimal conditions than did the cell in a group. Through division of labor and coordination between cells, the external environment of the single-celled organism became the internal environment of the multicellular organism...
...long practised to increase the yield of plants, may eventually be looked back on as little better than superficial when compared with a new method described last week by Cornell's Botanist Lewis Knudson. Using X-rays, Knudson has permanently increased the size of plants' cnloroplasts-the cell's tiny granular bodies where chlorophyll makes sugar and starch out of inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis-most important chemical reaction in the world...
...rays to modify plants, his results have no relation to those of other scientists who for 15 years have also been creating mutations of plants (and animals) with X-rays (TIME, April 14). Such previous mutations were caused by the ionizing-or "electrifying" -effect of X-rays on the cell's chromosomes, kneading these heredity-determining units into unusual patterns and thus producing freakish plants which would seldom occur in nature...