Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between the crystal (highest form of inorganic matter) and a unicellular bit of protoplasm (lowest form of living matter) has been a gap which scientists have never been able to span. In a recent issue of Nature, British scientific weekly, Dr. F. Rinne, University of Freiburg, Germany, suggested similarities between a crystal and a simple sperm cell which may be the means of drawing living and nonliving matter together. He pointed out that a chief characteristic of liquid crystals* is the so-called "straight-stretch" type of molecule which composes it. Protein molecules of sperm cells are also...
...more than the two lovers who followed, but she found solace in her genius, which flourished or failed as her emotional life varied. When Jonkheer Nico returned, however, and saw her in an ingenue part, her seeming innocence recaptured him. Once more he tried to bridge the social gap between them. He had broadened while abroad and might have been successful, but the joy of acting had so gripped Jenny's introvertive nature that she could not fight herself free from theatricality. For many difficult months she played to him, consciously and unconsciously, to hide her hardness. She even deserted...
...yard and a half in front. He was running in his famed "classic" style, his head back, his knees pumping out and up. Tolan, built so close to the ground that experts argue lack of wind resistance as one reason for his speed, was at his shoulder, but the gap stayed between them. Simpson's chest broke the tape first. His time of 9.7 sec. was "far" from the record but he got some satisfaction by beating Tolan again that afternoon by three yards...
...British annexation of Upper Burma (Road to Mandalay, TIME, Feb. 3). Camped in the Burmese jungle at night, Maugham preferred patience (he knows 17 kinds) to the works of Shakespeare. In the Shan States he admired the women's dress: short coat, kilt, leggings, with a gap between coat and kilt. Says he: "I could not fail to notice how much character it gives a woman's face to display her navel." From time to time in his travels Maugham met an outlandish character, was often made confidant of an outlandish story. In the teak forests of Siam...
There is a two-Inch gap extending the entire length of the chimney wall to prevent water soaking through to the interior and causing a back draught...