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Proxy Immunity. To cross-check his findings, Dr. Miller took some newborn mice, removed their thymuses, and a week later grafted in new thymuses from mice of a different strain. These animals grew up to be healthy, but had a striking peculiarity. They accepted skin grafts from mice of the strain whose thymus glands they carried, while rejecting, in the normal way, other foreign tissues. Dr. Miller called it "immunological reactions by proxy." Despite the differences between man and mouse, the thymus gland probably plays much the same role in both species...
Close precautions were taken at the Houses, Radcliffe, Harkness, and the Business School to ensure that all voting procedures were thoroughly fair. At the Law School, however, no cross-check could be made with the names of the individuals voting, so the Law School results must be seen as less than completely definitive...
Discovery of the theft came after a cross-check of ticket stubs against total income revealed that the organization received no money for $180 worth of tickets...
This, Metcalf said, should cost $110,000 and save $12,000 annually. Further, having only one catalogue would mean far greater convenience for scholars who now have to run up and downstairs to cross-check the two catalogues...
...chaos, however, one thing is sure. The Metcalf merger will be a great blow to the nation's security in the event of a general mobilization. Harvard's scholars will grow soft if deprived, of their daily interfloor chugging to cross-check catalogue references...