Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Military dictator, and there seems little hope for the peace of the nation. There is the added complication that the odious Prince William of Gleck is the proposed husband for Princess Anne in a forthcoming diplomatic romance. Just about this time the king gets the constitution out of the dust-covered files and reads it, every word. He then proceeds to prove that the worm can turn (in his own humble way, of course), and that the meek inherit the earth...
...Saturday for years and years. I have come to look on it as a mask behind which lies the reality that it has to hide. It is getting a bit battered and shopworn. Perhaps it would not be such a bad idea to cast it off and let dust return to dust...
...moon-faced plant-physiologist who is dean of the University of California's graduate division, now thinks such guessers have been correct. From several sources he acquired meteorites (meteors which landed intact on Earth). These he doused, scrubbed, seared and otherwise sterilized, then pulverized in sterile mortars. The dust he placed in germ-cultures. Nine cultures showed growth of rod or coccoid bacteria...
...normal luminosity. Many ideas for this variation in brilliance have been set forth by astronomers all over the country, but few of them seem to give any valid reason for it. Whipple stated that one of the more feasible is that there may be a great cloud of meteor dust, not unlike that which surrounds Saturn, through which the comet is at present passing; and it is the gases that are emitted by this cloud which unite with the comet and produce a reflection of unusual brillianey, a light which is made brighter by the presence of the sun. Another...
Despite investigations, Dr. Turck was unable to determine the precise nature of cytost. If a chemical, it is very stable, resisting heat (up to 300° C) and age (Sir Flinders Petrie reports that mummy dust contains an active poison). Dr. Turck thought cytost an enzyme or a hormone. In the Action of the Living Cell, he uttered the "earnest hope that other investigators will attempt to repeat and extend his observations." It was his scientific testament. While strolling Fifth Avenue last November he died of heart failure, aged 75. With him were his adoring wife and namesake...