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Word: cells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems, on the other hand, that cancer is a disease of the cell, perhaps even of the cell nucleus which results from an intrinsic physical chemical disturbance, perhaps due to a chemical factor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...favorite city, Philadelphia. They flocked to the meeting of the American Chemical Society, founded 50 years ago at Northumberland, Pa., at the home of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), discoverer of oxygen (TIME, Sept. 6). They were chemists who would discuss problems far more complex than charging a Leyden wet cell with current from an electrical storm conducted by a kite-string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

Keenie Wagner, alias Harvey Logan, alias "Texas Slim," confessed killer of deputy-sheriff Mclntosh at McClain, Miss.; of two police officers at Kingsburg, Tenn., wagged garrulously of the $3,000 reward on his capture as Sheriff Lillie put him in a county cell. Asked why he surrendered, "Texas Slim" said: "The novelty.... I never gave up to a woman before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 30, 1926 | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...scholarly exactitude. Very few know that he and his associates have performed 2,670 experiments on animals, including man, and made countless observations while ever searching for some explanation of what life really is. They have decided that life is an electric phenomenon. For nine years they studied living cells. They learned that every one of the 28,000,000,000,000 (28 trillion) cells in the human body are alike in that each is a tiny electric cell. The positive pole is an ultra-minute acidic nucleus held within an oily (lipoid) film.* The rest of the cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...Biologist Popenoe's sound book, the first in its field, is far more than an academic disputation. It is advanced with the prime intention of promoting study of the family, per se, through the biologist's lens. Consequently it is packed with orderly, unsensational, valuable facts-the cell- scientist's facts on human polygamy, premarital incontinence, celibacy, size of family, optimum ages of motherhood, abortion, divorce, cousins marrying, etc., etc. There is strong meat in it for thoughtful persons, but it is recommended only to readers capable of supplying their own aesthetic and philosophical salt and pepper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

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