Word: checker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...queue stretched so far back one day last week that two Russian babushkas could be spotted alongside thee stream of section refugees reasoning that some valuable commodity must be distributed at the end. Rumor has it that if you hand the checker five kopecks he'll stick a loaf of bread in your "A Wet Book Is Not A Dead Duck...
...Widener Checker: I'm sorry...
Mulkerin states, "It's common knowledge there that if you utter 'Yard' to the checkers at Currier, you can have all the monk fish you want without fear of reprisal." Just as Jews couldn't hide their identity in Nazi Germany by stating, "I am Christian," 29G residents can't hide our identities from a checker who has known us as 29G residents all year long and who has a list of all dormitory residents...
...would name to the Senate:Vivian, the checker in Leverett House...
...explains Richard Kolodner, a biochemist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and one of the discoverers of the defective gene. This blueprint must be recopied each time the cell divides. "Some mistakes get made," Kolodner continues. "The ((protein made by the normal gene)) is like the spell-checker on a computer. It helps to scan for errors, detect them and fix them." When the spell-checking gene is damaged in some way, mistakes start piling up in other genes. Eventually some of the genes that keep cells from dividing uncontrollably are affected and cancer arises. It most often...