Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Psychologist Vince is not sure what causes the clicking, but she thinks it is associated with lung ventilation and serves as a form of communication be tween the eggs. As more mature embryos move toward the hatching stage, she says, their clicking stimulates faster development of younger embryos in adjacent eggs, so that all of the eggs hatch around the same time. To check her theory, she shortened the normal incubation period of a quail egg by placing it in a nest of other quail eggs that began incubation at least 24 hours earlier. Stimulated by the surrounding clicks...
Ramsey participated in the discovery, some years ago, that the heavy hydrogen nucleus is egg-shaped rather than spherical. More recently, with other Harvard scientists, he has been working to determine the distribution of electrical charges within the proton. In 1960, his laboratory built the first atomic hydrogen maser, which could become the most accurate atomic clock in the world...
...former Nat Sci 5 student applauded Hopkins as being "the only guy in the University who could make the development of a chicken egg really mean something...
Harvard posted a goose egg in the third quarter too but the defense tightened and held the Tigers to only two tallies...
While The Adventurers is Robbins' biggest egg, it is nevertheless a solid-gold one. Advance printing reached 175,000 copies, and even before it was written Producer Joe Levine, who bankrolled The Carpetbaggers, took a million-dollar option on it, plans to put it before the cameras before it cools off. With such success enveloping him, Robbins feels that he can afford to snipe genially at some fellow writers who have enjoyed loftier reputations. Norman Mailer, he says, lost his knack "because he ran into his belly." And as for Truman Capote: "He'd be all right...