Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago it looked as if Harry S. Truman and Robert A. Taft would be the nominees for the presidency. Instead of these familiar quantities, the country now has to reckon with two men relatively new to national politics, both clearly able, both clearly capable of springing lots of surprises. The two meetings at the stockyards proved that fresh winds are badly needed...
...protein. First he broke the large molecules by oxidation into two fragments, one containing 21 amino-acid building blocks, the other 30. Then by other methods (e.g., hydrolysis), he broke the two parts down until he had fragments that contained only a few amino acids each. These were compounds familiar to biochemists. Sanger identified them by paper chromatography,† and the first and easiest part of his job was done...
...that does not appear in the known chemistry of living things. This, they decided, must be a taillike fragment knocked off some larger fragment. They would shift it around, like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, until they found a spot where it could be placed to form a familiar compound. Little by little, their picture of the insulin molecule took on detail. At last they were sure they knew where each building block belonged...
...week long Tulsa's citizens, from oil barons to field workers, filed through the exhibit, scanned the familiar scenes, nodded and grinned appreciatively. Tulsa was proud of the oil business, and liked nothing better than the idea of having it set down on canvas for everybody...
...peace.") To bolster its just-folks plot, the movie throws in a couple of production numbers from the Ziegfeld Follies, in which Rogers starred. But it is in Will Rogers Jr.'s performance that his father comes most alive on the screen: the familiar slouch with hands jammed in pockets, the unruly forelock, the sheepish grin, the shambling wisecracks delivered in his famous gumchewing drawl...