Word: clots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stars Grow. One of the things which astronomers worry about is why most of the matter in the universe is clotted into widely separated stars. Why did it clot in the first place? And are the clots (stars) still forming out of shattered matter? At Madison, Dr. Lyman Spitzer of Yale told his theory...
...days in a regular cycle, the colony moves its bivouac every night. Toward dusk one of the raiding columns loses its martial excitement, slows its pace. Then the raiders fall into a steady, plodding lockstep. At the far end of the column, up to 200 yards long, they clot together in a tight, solid mass. The news of the move spreads back to the previous bivouac. As raiders come in from forays in other directions, they turn and follow the plodding column...
...brains of victims of this creeping apoplexy are found, after death, to be covered with hundreds of "infarcts" where a tiny blood clot has choked off the surrounding tissues. (As an old lady once told Alvarez: "Death takes little bites.") Symptoms: overnight the victim ages quickly, becomes querulous, may lose his self-respect, may deteriorate morally...
Died. Edward ("Spike") Howard, 68, world's champion blood donor (1,100-odd pints); reportedly of a blood clot; in Philadelphia. A onetime (1922) "Strongest Man in the World," 240-lb. Spike bragged that his blood flowed in the veins of the best families (he gave some to the late President Calvin Coolidge's father, the ex-wife of Pennsylvania's ex-Governor George Earle), but was proudest that he had never sold a drop...
...blood, and one has the plasma, composed of water and protein. Even the biggest of these protein particles would be only the length of a man's walking stick in the Harvard Stadium. At that size it would be a particle of fibrinogen, the protein which causes blood to clot and which is used in the new cures for bleeding...