Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only explanations offered by the thief are that he "enjoyed a good time" adding later that his robberies were done to aid a girl-friend to cure her of the drug habit. Only visitors to see him since his arrest have been his father and lawyer, and no further details...
Stanford Chemists Hubert S. Loring and C. E. Schwerdt had pondered a strange puzzle. Like other polio virus hunters, they had ground up and sifted the brains and spinal cords of nobody knows how many infected rats and monkeys. They had prepared virulent extracts, capable of transmitting the disease. But...
Did the refining process kill the virus? Loring and Schwerdt thought lowering the temperature might keep the virus alive. As part of a long process, they made an extract from the brains and spinal cords of polio-infected cotton rats, froze it. Then, letting it start to thaw, they whirled...
In his declining years, looking dourly out on the world, Historian Henry Adams thought he was watching the simultaneous decline of civilization at large. A good deal of how he felt he managed to get into The Education of Henry Adams, and more is to be had in the two...
Newton used an apple, Galileo a pendulum, and now the River Charles, has been unutilized in the interests of science. A curious and resourceful member of Adams House decided Saturday, while scrolling across the frozen stream, that further investigations were needed on the elasticity of ice.