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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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First he pictures the living cell (normal or cancerous) and its system: 1) nucleus, 2) protoplasm, 3) semipermeable cell membrane, 4) environment (blood and tissue juices). From its environment the cell gets its energy-producing materials. Through its environment it gets rid of its wastes. Glycogen, or animal sugar, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Cure Criteria | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

In the effort to vary, however slightly, the frayed formula for underworld pictures, Warner Brothers stumbled into the environment of illegal gambling, a field so fertile it is hard to see how it had hitherto been neglected. Nick is played by Edward G. Robinson, an actor with the face of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Again Arbuckle? | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

Although the establishment of a Poetry Room, similar to the Farnsworth Room is no guarantee that Harvard undergraduates will come into closer contact with English and other literatures, yet if offers a splendid opportunity for those who chose to avail themselves of it. However, at the same time that the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POETRY ROOM | 5/26/1931 | See Source »

(3 of 3) from you is ice." Up Pops the Devil (Paramount). Novel-writing is a career which the cinema often shows accompanied by domestic disagreements. It takes effect as an irritant in this one after Steve Merrick (Norman Foster) has given up his job to produce a book while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

President Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History, also a paleontologist, was to talk next for 15 minutes on his hypothesis that the organs of an animal have their own struggle for existence. That is why animals of the same general family have different characteristics. Example: the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Facts, Questions | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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