Word: containers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stronger, and more skillfully led than at any time since the emergency began." To contain the Mau Mau, who have be gun to mount attacks in company strength, the British have been forced to deploy 5,500 British infantrymen (many of them from the Suez Canal Zone) and 4,000 African Riflemen, at a cost of $700,000 a month. Thousands of Kikuyu are in jail, tens of thousands in hiding, yet Mau Mau gangs terrorize the countryside within sight of Nairobi...
When the apparatus had run for a day, the water grew pinkish, then turned red. After a week. Student Miller analyzed the mixture. It proved to contain at least three amino acids (glycine, alpha-alanine and beta-alanine). This was the hoped-for payoff: amino acids are the building blocks of which proteins are made...
...students voting, 1,011 asked that a deadline be set. Four chapters of national fraternities whose constitutions contain discriminatory clauses remain at Columbia. Their total membership is 180 students...
...knew that certain kinds of coal contain small amounts of it, probably concentrated in some way by the ancient plants that coal is made of. So Dr. Brauchli analyzed the ash of modern plants that grow in parts of the eastern U.S. where the water shows faint traces of germanium. He found that some plants, mostly from swampy areas near mountains, have as much as 5% of the metal in their ash. Apparently they "discard" the germanium, depositing it in outlying parts, such as leaves and bark. Dr. Brauchli believes that it might be profitable, in favored spots, to grow...
Starting lineup for today's game will contain no radical changes. Don David-off, John Lane, and Lewis will be the attack men, backed up by Tim Cogan, Lindsay Fischer, Bobby Lloyd, and Fuzzy Stewart in midfield slots. Tom Cooney will tend the nets...