Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assisting in the delivery room, I am always profoundly impressed at the miracle of life. After reading your article, "The Secret of Life," I am even more profoundly amazed that the geneticists can seriously entertain the theory of chance rendezvous of DNA ultimately producing the complex human being. How much more logical it would be to attribute creation to "the handiwork...
...summer studying non-responders. Last week all he would say was: "The essential point is that the proportion of individuals who do not respond is influenced by vaccine potency." Last summer there was considerable evidence (TIME, July 15, 1957) that some of the vaccine, whose manufacture is highly complex, is not potent...
...tube) through the abdominal wall into the stomach. Many victims struggled along for years with these makeshifts. About 20 years ago, surgeons got bolder, devised several operations to supply a missing stretch of gullet by stitching a piece of the child's gut in its place. Appallingly complex, these techniques often needed a series of operations spread over a period of years. They could be done only in major medical centers...
...play Shylock as to play Hamlet, and most of them have been tried. Max Adrian gives us an unsympathetic Shylock--bitter, gloating, sadistic. Adrian is constitutionally incapable of doing a slipshod job; and this is a distinguished performance. Morris Carnovsky's unsurpassable portrayal last summer was an extraordinarily complex one; and it is no reflection on Adrian if he cannot match it. Adrian's Shylock is simpler and more straightforward, and wholly consistent. And he adopts a faster tempo than most actors, avoiding exaggeration and the temptation to make every word a crucial...
...sugar engineering at Louisiana State University, then went into the family sugar-trading firm of Galban Lobo. Soon Lobo was on his own, eventually started buying mills as the best protection for a speculator. Five months ago he bought his latest and most impressive parcel: a $24.5 million complex of Cuban mills and other assets called the Hershey properties, once held by the chocolate-makers and since 1946 by Cuban Atlantic Sugar...