Word: cricks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caltech's Chemist Linus Pauling, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on molecular structure, reported that the DNA molecule has a helical (spiral-staircase) structure. Later that year, James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick in England went a step farther. DNA, they said, is a double helix with two spirally rising chains of linked atomic groups and a series of horizontal members, like steps, connecting the two spirals. This molecular model, deduced mostly from X-ray diffraction photos, seemed complex and unlikely, but geneticists rejoiced when they heard about it. It was just what they" needed...
...Watson-Crick model of DNA, the two spirals are made of five-carbon sugar molecules (deoxyribose), alternating with phosphate groups. The "steps" connecting the two spirals are made of four "bases" (adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine) linked in pairs. The pairs can point in either direction, but adenine must always be joined to thymine and guanine to cytosine...
...Ozarks. "He never saw a Negro until he was a grown lad," said Uncle Sam. "Then he went away North to follow the strawberry crop when he was about 18. We only had one Negro family in Madison County in those days, and they lived way down on the crick where nobody ever saw 'em. I told Orval not to hate anybody of any race. I told him people would think he was narrow-minded and would look down on him." Then Old Sam provided a key to the understanding of Orval Faubus: "That's one thing Orval...
...unfortunate that Mr. Crick's two-paragraph criticism of the CRIMSON's feature on Schine should have to be answered by a four-paragraph concoction of evasive answers and actual misinterpretation of Mr. Crick's intent. The CRIMSON apparently feels, however, that any criticism, left unrefuted, lessons the effect of its editorial opinion...
Lastly, I would dispute Mr. Crick's apparent assumption that the college career of a Harvard alumnus should not be painted unfavorably in the CRIMSON. This he seems to suggest is some sort of disloyalty to Harvard. Here he displays a misunderstanding of the freedom and diversity which underlie this university. Harvard takes no responsibility either for what its students do with themselves here or what they become later. It is therefore no less befitting for the university paper to run an article on Mr. Schine's life here than it was for it to publish...