Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor L. R. Cleveland is more interested in the sex life of smaller animals, minute protozoa that live in the bodies of insects. Usually the amoebae reproduce by splitting in half, but inside insects they find a chemical that changes them into males and females...
...other line of Williams research also deals with insects, and the unexplained mystery of how they fly. Men can contract their muscles only 10 times a second, but some insect wings hit frequencies of 1000. Biologists have never understood how they do it and in his attempts to find out Williams has built such weird instruments as a machine that measures the horsepower output of a fruitfly...
...biologists have dozens of other projects. Some are digging for fossils in Vermont; some are trying to find how insects got their wings; some are learning how the human eye sees; and one man is studying the effects of sewage disposal in the ocean. There's a project for every professor, and there are 32 professors...
Never Too Late. In Syracuse, N.Y., police found a stolen watch in a pawnshop, then set out to find Samuel Stewart, who had reported it missing 22 years...
...Business cannot entirely escape responsibility for its environment," he said. "Business managers have the responsibility of keeping the community friendly toward business. This means that enterprises need to have top executives who understand the community, who are interested in its problems and sympathetic to its efforts to find solutions for these problems...