Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Is butter superior to margarine? For years, the warring champions of butter and margarine (made from vegetable fat -mostly soybean and cottonseed oil) have been smearing each other, despite laboratory tests on rats and mice that showed no difference in food value. In 1946, three Chicago physicians* accepted a grant...
Since 1929, stubborn-jawed Dr. Claude Heman Barlow has been studying bilharziasis, a disease of the bladder caused by snail-borne parasites common in Egypt. In 1944, he infected himself with the parasites (TIME, Dec. 6, 1946). The experiment cost him his own health, but it gave science some valuable...
McKean was a poor lecturer but an unusual man. "O I declare, I sometimes think he will look me right through," wrote one girl on hearing him speak. Nevertheless, he was studious, and the houses's spacious rooms had their first taste of bookishness in the five years of his...
The important thing about Dr. Gollan's experiment: his method, although not startlingly new, proves that a virus can be produced rapidly and cheaply. He took brain tissue from polio-infected mice, chopped it up, put it in an alcohol solution, then precipitated the virus by spinning it in...
After we lost the election some of my colleagues determined to try the experiment of a rival newspaper. I gave my support to this venture but took no active part in it, so the story of the Harvard Journal must come from someone else. I never felt that there was...