Word: comma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern Treatment. Cholera, an infection of the digestive tract, kills chiefly by removing water from the body. The blood gets too thick to circulate, and death comes from "shock." Modern treatment knocks off the vibrios (comma-shaped, whiskery bacteria) with sulfa drugs, and dilutes the thickening blood with saline solution or serum. The vaccine has worked well. No one receiving two injections (cost: 3?) has yet got the disease; only one who has had a single shot has come down with...
...ZoBell has busied himself for years with the microflora of oil strata, including sea-bottom muds where oil is thought to be formed. His original idea was to study how bacteria modify crude oil (TIME, Dec. 17, 1945). But in 1943, he found in sea mud a comma-shaped bacterium which he named (he was only 38 at the time, and feeling in the pink) desulphovibrio halo-hydrocarbonoclasticus. He put it in a test tube filled with material to simulate a limestone oilsand. Four days later, oil bubbled out of the test tube's mouth. A little later...
...Says Davies (who objects to orthodox Christianity and especially the Apostles' Creed as inadequate): "The Creed goes: '. . . Born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate. . . .' The comma between those two phrases is the most important part of Christ's life. After all, the life of Christ is something more than a punctuation mark...
...under constant attack by both right & left. Reason: he openly rebels against any political or clerical form which he believes is fundamentally empty. He regards the Apostles' Creed as inadequate. Says he: "The Creed goes: '. . . Born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate. . . .' The comma between those two phrases is the most important part of Christ's life. After all, the life of Christ is something more than a punctuation mark...
...logically argued his sisters into incurable neuroses, and ruled the household with an "intellectual regime of terror [that] would have been impossible in any other atmosphere than that of the German intellectual middle class." After his university career-which included lectures on subjects such as "The use of the comma by Lessing"-Franz had progressed so far into the abstract that the philosophy of Immanuel Kant appeared to him to be "escape literature." Suicide was the only logical next step. With the aid of a world-weary student of Sanskrit, young Schoenberner plotted a chain of thought of such intellectual...