Word: containment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virus, found to contain carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen like thousands of organic compounds, could now be contemplated as a huge protein molecule -a "macro-molecule." Was it alive or not alive? No known living thing is crystalline in form. It would be fantastic to imagine a crystalline pig. Yet the virus showed the ability to reproduce itself in great quantities when stimulated by contact with a plant. Thus the Princeton chemist had discovered an apparent bridge between living and nonliving matter. This was a discovery of Nobel Prize calibre...
...personal impression is that the first two hundred pages of Sorokin's first volume contain the decisive argument, but D. W. Prall thinks so little of that volume that we might well summarize his tortuous arguments in the good old American phrase...
...This is not possible for an interesting reason. Teaching "Math A" are a number of the country's leading experts in the field, and they simply cannot agree as to the best methods of presentation; indeed, they cannot agree entirely as to what an elementary course in mathematics should contain. Thus there can be no one examination that will be fair to every student...
Famed chiefly for talking, the Rightist "Radio General" Queipo de Llano and his men achieved the only significant military action in Spain last week, finally wrested from the Leftists 150 square miles in the Penarroya sector which has been warmly contested for the past three months, chiefly because they contain deposits of lead, copper, iron and coal. Biggest is a French-owned coal mine and this week, with the Leftists repulsed to a distance of twelve miles, miners resumed work and General Queipo de Llano radiorated louder than ever. Meanwhile, the widely advertised Aragon-Teruel offensive along the northeastern battle...
...starting team accords with the A team backfield as it ran through signals yesterday afternoon, it will contain a lot of faces usually strange to Stadium crowds. The backfield was composed of Wilson as blocking back, Harding tailback, Foley wingback, and Pope as bucking back. But probably Macdonald and Struck will be in condition by the and of the week, if not to start at least to see action. The line stood as usual with Hedblom at center, Klein in Allen's position...