Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sleeping Pupa.The three "cytochrome" enzymes are basic growth factors. Present in human beings as well as in silkworms, they control the utilization of oxygen in the tissues. Without them growth is impossible. The dormant Cecropia pupa contains no cytochrome enzymes. Therefore it cannot grow until they are provided by the chain of hormones that starts in its brain...
...death and his vengeance hell," wrote one. "His neighborhood is unbearable." The other, a fellow artist, called him "a monster in design; his women are all strumpets, and his men all banditti, with the action of galvanized frogs [but] no man had the power like Fuseli of arousing the dormant spirit of youth...
...discover, however, that poor Poet Smart had been confined in an asylum just before A Song to David was first published - which prompted Browning to the romantic conclusion that Smart had been no better than a hack while, he had his wits; that when he lost them his dormant genius had burst into bloom...
...Crimson batting power, dormant Monday when the Elis took the first game of the series 2 to 1, burst forth with a total of 15 hits. John White and Benny Akillian led the attack with three hits apiece, with White's total including a three-run homer in the third...
...elks. They remember that, on TV, he has often taken a pull at a Coke bottle when he might have been plugging his sponsored products. And they know that Godfrey's fooling around with a ukulele on the air pumped new life into an industry that had been dormant since the early 1930s. Said uke salesman Jack Loeb: "Sales went from nothing to higher than they had been even in the 'flapper' days . . . We can't keep enough ukuleles in stock...