Search Details

Word: embryos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Precisely how the embryo organization may set up shop on U. S. campuses with a program flexible yet concrete has been set forth in the draft constitution prepared by the National Continuations Committee established by the Chicago Conference in December. Through five national commissions with a regional and campus hierarchy the NSO intends to integrate itself with every imaginable phase of student life. Commission I (Campus Academic, Social, Cultural, and Physical Conditions) could well step in at once where small colleges abound and initiate cooperative regional planning for lecture and concert attractions which otherwise would never venture into the grass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On to Wisconsin | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

...solution containing pitocin and a patient's blood sample. If the patient's blood lacks pitocinase, the pitocin-stimulated uterus contracts vigorously. But if the patient is pregnant, contractions are weaker; they vary according to the amount of pitocinase present. An abortion or death of an embryo is detectable by a drop in the amount of pitocinase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birthday Predicter | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...suggested, without extravagance, that our modern Western Civilization would probably have been derived from an Irish instead of a Roman embryo either if Colman instead of Wilfrid had won the Synod of Whitby in A.D. 664, or again if Abd-ar-Rahman instead of Charles Martel had won the battle of Tours in A.D. 732."-A. J. Toynbee, A Study of History. f Scotland has been Presbyterian since the Scottish barons, inspired by John Knox, bound themselves in covenant (1557) against Catholicism and in support of the Reformation. The church became the "established church" in 1707. Stubborn Scots argue that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Light at lona | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...theme song in the meeting rooms of the University of Chicago's Reynolds Club was hardly "Hearts and Flowers." Before sentiment crystallized, leaders of loosely organized factions jockeyed for the limelight and lined up issues. Ineffectual embryo Communists were on hand; so was a large groups representing Catholic colleges and groups. Looming larger than either was the University of Texas delegation with a concrete middle-course plan...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Parley Delegations Reconcile Differences | 1/7/1947 | See Source »

Controlled Growth. After a few days, the seedlings have ghost-white roots and little white spikes (the coleoptiles) which envelop the embryo leaves. Thimann cuts off the coleoptiles, trims their points, and strings the tiny hollow cylinders on the hairlike teeth of a comb. Then he puts them in water containing a little sugar and indoleacetic acid (a growth-promoting substance). He measures them under a microscope and tucks them away in darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Simplest Life | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Previous | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | Next