Word: containers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students are studying the tolerance of fresh-water fish for salt, the effect of light on the fighting mood of chameleons, and ways to induce toads to lay their eggs out of season. One boy, having noticed that some dead fish do not pollute the water in tanks that contain a certain type of algae, now thinks he is on the road to a discovery. "I know there is an antibiotic property in the algae," says he. "My next job is to isolate...
...strings were joined by winds and harp (the latter quite a rarity on a Harvard stage) for Gabriel Faure's suite for Pelleas et Melisande, Opus 80. Faure was unsurpassed in the combination of subtle harmonies and delicate colorings; and the four movements of this suite contain some of his most exquisite writing, such as the shimmering muted violins in "La Fileuse" and the tinges of modal harmony in "Mort de Melisande." Everything here is achieved through understatement, through minute shadings within a restrained gamut. The resulting "parfum imperissable," to borrow the title of one of Faure's songs...
...scrubby, rolling country northwest of Rome lies rich archaeological pay dirt, but the worthwhile pockets are as hard to hit as producing oil wells. Some of the underground tombs left by the Etruscans who lived there 2,500 years, ago still contain priceless art treasures, while others, robbed centuries ago, are not worth the trouble and expense. When a modern, authorized graverobber (archaeologist) finds a tomb and digs laboriously into it, he often finds only dust and broken crockery. Last week Amateur Archaeologist Carlo Lerici was proving that modern scientific techniques can take the gamble and much of the secret...
...floors contain a number of bedrooms for visiting members and the 20-odd permanent residents of the Club. Since the Club does not have a very large non-resident membership (about 1000 out of the 3890 total membership), the hotel part is not usually filled. The rooms are mostly singles and doubles; there are only three rooms for married couples. All the walls are covered with old prints of the College...
Most of the strontium 90 created by past bomb tests is still in the stratosphere or in the soil, but it will tend to move for years into human bones. If no more large tests are made, the Columbia men figure, the average human bone should contain, by 1970, about 1.3 micromicrocuries of strontium 90 per gram of calcium. This is eleven times the present amount...