Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pacemaker. Most biologists believe that the evolution of higher organisms works through genes-tiny little somethings (probably protein molecules) strung along the chromosomes in the germ plasm. Thousands of genes controlling various body characteristics have been traced in Drosophila melanogaster, the scientifically celebrated little fruit fly. It is by changes...
Beloved of capitalists and kings are the works of Antoine Watteau. Few others can afford them. Of about 200 Watteau paintings in the world, three U. S. museums have been able to acquire one apiece.* Last week the fourth and one of the finest was a Christmas present to the...
Ever since last March Mayor Wilson has tried to get the explosives out of Fort Mifflin. So touchy a spot, he has argued, is as much a menace to Philadelphia as to the airport. But the Navy Department stubbornly insisted that there and nowhere else will it keep its Delaware...
Born. To Marshall Field III, 45, Chicago department store scion; and his third wife, Ruth Pruyn Phipps Field, 32; a daughter; in Manhattan. The baby (their second, her fourth, his fifth) was expected to become an aunt shortly, since her half-sister, Mrs. Anthony A. Bliss. 21, was due to...
Geer was taken to the Cambridge police department, where the legitimacy of his wares apparently was established. He was released, it was reported, after signing a statement, drawn up by Colonel Apted, that he would not show up at Harvard again. This was no reflection on the quality of Goer...