Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor & Art. "And do you know what's behind this lag in experiment over here? Your radio union, the American Federation of Radio Artists. To put together a fine radio program takes time, but the union's rigid wages-&-hours regulations make it impossible-or at least financially...
The cells grow for a day or so, "eating" the sugar and acid. They grow in isolation, uninfluenced by the complex substances which would normally reach them from the oat seed. Professor Thimann can experiment on them, and know what he is doing.
One recent experiment was to put a "growth inhibitor" (iodoacetic acid) in the water. It did not kill the cells, but stopped their growth by breaking a necessary chain of chemical reactions. Then, one after another, Thimann added likely compounds, hoping to see growth start again. He found that malic...
Two of the subjects went so deep asleep that Hypnotist Peter Casson, in the flesh, had to wake them up. As a result of this private test, BBC decided to ban hypnotists from telecasting, pending further experiment. (One wag promptly suggested that there was no danger of British listeners being...
The Information and Education Program performed its most valuable function in keeping the Army of the United States a citizen-army. Now that Berlin and Tokio have been conquered, it is required more than ever to teach an ever-younger American soldier why he is needed for occupation duty, what...