Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the electron, the gene has eluded the eye of Science while manifesting itself by its works. "Gene" is the name by which geneticists agreed to call the mysterious heredity-transmitting agents strung along the length of the chromosome. As minute streaks in body cells, the chromosomes were visible under the microscope; their component parts were not. Last week a long step toward visual study of genes seemed to have been taken by Dr. Calvin Blackman Bridges of the Carnegie Institution, working at the Station for Experimental Evolution in Cold Spring Harbor...
...will watch the hawk with an indifferent eye...
...flight by the mysterious figure of Amaranth, a symbolic embodiment of conscience, the erstwhile painter watches fate overtake the other inhabitants, eventually wins his release from the accursed country. Total effect of Amaranth is typically Robinsonian: a shadow masque seen through a glass darkly, by a keen but puzzled eye...
...impassioned plea from Pamela Gray to come to the aid of her brother who is to be hung in three days for a murder which he did not commit. Chan consents and soon appears at the Hunt Club where Lt. Hamilton was murdered, supposedly by Gray. With his uncanny eye for telling bits of evidence, Chane soon finds out enough to cause an attempt to be made on his own cause an attempt to be made on his life. With only eight hours remaining before the time set for the execution of Gray, Chan sets a clever trap...
...wisest way, for it was not long before it had received some thing of an unsavory odor not only from the conservative sides of Harvard. Since then the paper has continued to appear, somewhat spasmodically, to be sure, but always with a few things of interest to attract the eye of the average Harvard...