Word: creation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atmosphere. Then he shot electric sparks through them to simulate lightning. In a week he had an organic soup in which he identified nine amino acids, four of which are constituents of proteins found in living organisms. Dr. Miller concluded that nature's first chemical step toward life creation was rather surprisingly easy...
...positions. Massive mortar and artillery barrages confined both sides to night patrols, reconnaissance, ambush or recovery of the dead. With a certain Byronesque recklessness, Russ volunteered for them all. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection for January, The Last Parallel is peculiarly fascinating for its creation of a new war generation in print, a kind of fighting man who could go into combat spouting bop talk, read the plays of Sophocles between barrages, and sniff heroin for kicks when away from the MLR (Main Line of Resistance...
...wrenched with pain, grew more and more emaciated as bedsores spread across her sensitive skin, and it became increasingly difficult to find places to insert the daily needles. But there were pauses, too, when death drew back as if exhausted. There were enough of these precious moments for the creation of rituals. Each night mother and daughter watched for the flights of starlings that flooded past their window. After the starlings came the lights of the city laying a pattern of dazzle across Manhattan...
Along with papers by several leading American scientists which indicated that the creation of life from so-called "dead matter" was no longer, as previously supposed, a physical fantasy, Wald said "If you start with a universe containing protons, neutrons, and electricity, life will eventually appear...
Merger Argument. There was another argument for merging: creation of another giant steel company with a capacity of 25.8 million tons (13.4 million tons less than U.S. Steel) and assets of $2.6 billion ($1 billion below U.S. Steel) could actually increase steel-industry competition. For the first time there would be a real rival for U.S. Steel, the undisputed monolith (first in capacity in ten of twelve major steel-producing categories) whose wage and price decisions have hitherto set the industry pattern...