Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanley showed that a pure strain of virus could be crystallized-consisted of lifeless molecules with the curious, lifelike power of reproducing themselves. This discovery closed the mysterious gap between living and inert matter, indicated no essential distinction except relative complexity of structure between atom, molecule, virus, cell and multicellular organism such...
Worse than the police was the cold prison. Young had nothing to sit down on but the damp cell floor. At last Ambassador Grew sent Young his sealskin-lined overcoat. Grew is over six feet tall; Young, much shorter. When Young turned up the coat collar, he was covered from head to foot. Young soon discovered that the Ambassador's coat gave him a certain diplomatic immunity. "As long as I had it on, the police would recognize it as Ambassador Crew's property. Removed, I was just another reporter." Young never took it off, wore it even...
...Hermann Joseph Muller, at the University of Texas, using Drosophila (fruit flies), proved that X-rays also have profound genetic effects. Piercing the nucleus of a living cell, they can destroy or rearrange the genes which determine the inherited characteristics of all new life. But, observes Dr. Failla, "All living organisms are subjected to ionizing radiations throughout their life." Chief sources are 1) potassium, a mildly radioactive element found in all cells, 2) cosmic rays, which constantly penetrate each human being...
...millionaire, who left Amina so well off that ever since she has been living the life of a female Tommy Manville. "My Ahmed dearly loves music," she explained to Egyptian reporters, bug-eyed at her jewels, "so I have installed a powerful radio receiver in a teashop near his cell." Every afternoon, the Beauty Queen dashed from court to teashop, turned on the radio full blast and sat yearning for her 35-year-old Iron Helmet Romeo...
Banting found ways to get insulin from dogs without waiting for cell degeneration, then how to get ample quantities from the pancreas of cattle. The fateful question was: Would insulin save human diabetics? Joe Gilchrist, a doctor and a classmate of Banting's, was a thin, hopeless, broken diabetic living on the starvation diet that in those days postponed for a little while death from diabetic coma. He got some insulin. In a few hours his head was clear, his legs lost their heaviness, he felt as though he were walking on air. Joe Gilchrist...