Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent experiment was to put a "growth inhibitor" (iodoacetic acid) in the water. It did not kill the cells, but stopped their growth by breaking a necessary chain of chemical reactions. Then, one after another, Thimann added likely compounds, hoping to see growth start again. He found that malic acid (which is found in apples) would overbalance the evil influence of iodoacetic acid, allowing the cells to grow. This proved that malic acid was somehow involved in the chain of reactions which the inhibitor had broken...
Educated Ear. Tabloid journalism would never get off the ground without such quotes, and such ears for them as smooth, chain-smoking David Buckley Charnay's. Newsman Charnay, 34, is a quiet fellow whom people like to confide in. He went to Public School 184, Walter Winchell's alma mater, and matriculated, like Winchell, on Broadway...
...With the Hippodrome, variously used as a theater, roller-skating rink and dance hall, he made enough money to buy Gloversville's two movie houses. Snapping up other small-town theaters by the dozen, he soon owned one of the biggest independent circuits in the U.S. His Schine Chain Theaters, Inc. now operates upwards of 150 theaters in New York, Ohio, Delaware, Maryland and Kentucky...
Along with his Christmas recitals, an endless chain of anecdotes have sprung up about 86-year-old Charles Townsend Copeland. There is the unauthenticated tale of his becoming eligible for a professorship only to be stymied by the fact that he had no Ph.D. Faced with the problem of locating someone who could give Copey an oral examination, the board gave up in despair and waived the requirement. To this day he holds only a Doctor of Letters award...
...four-engined York monoplane, London-bound, the "No Smoking" sign stayed on for an hour out of Karachi. When it went out, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, in a front-row seat, chain-smoked State Express 555 cigarets, buried his hawk's head in a book pointedly titled A Nation Betrayed. Behind him sat Pandit Jawar-halal Nehru, chain-smoking Chesterfields, wearing Western-style clothes for the first time in eight years. Between Karachi and Malta, Nehru breezed through Rosamond Lehmann's The Ballad and the Source and Sinclair Lewis' Cass Timberlane, chatted with his good friend, Sikh leader