Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands burning and hearts still tingling with a rediscovery of a bygone Fourth of July-a time when the franks were fat and hot and the firecrackers spat showers of sparks and the drum major's spinning baton flashed in the sun, and the grass in the park felt as soft as corn silk underfoot. Since opening night last Dec. 19, every audience has reacted in this same wholehearted way to The Music Man, Broadway's biggest musical...
More schools necessarily require greater expenditures, and Frederic C. Wood, a consulting engineer, spoke on "A Citizen Analyzes Building Costs for Schools." Wood felt that considerable sums of money are wasted in the construction of new schools through sheer ignorance of building costs...
...wealth supplied by Mullers X rays gave genetics a big boost, and Beadle felt the benefit along with his colleagues. After getting his doctorate (in genetics) at Cornell in 1931, he went to the California Institute of Technology on a National Research Council fellowship. Dr. Morgan, grand maestro of the fruit flies, had moved there in 1928 to head the biology section, and several of his keenest disciples had come with him. Young Dr. Beadle found himself in the best genetic society...
Teaming up with Alfred H. Sturtevant, one of Morgan's men, Beadle worked for three years on corn and fruit-fly genetics. But he felt vaguely that something was wrong, that perhaps corn and fruit-fly chromosomes were almost worked out. His friend Professor Boris Ephrussi, a visiting embryologist from the University of Paris, agreed. Both decided that genetics had become too isolated; what it needed was ideas from other sciences...
...Caltech needed a new head for its now famous Division of Biology. Professor Morgan had retired. Beadle was tapped for the job and accepted, knowing well that he would have to curtail, perhaps abandon, his personal research. Some of his friends felt that a great scientist was being wasted on a routine administrative job, and there was a precedent for their fears in the history of genetics. Mendel himself did nothing of note after he was made abbot...