Word: germless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hammerstein has written a screen play as pleasing and deft as his lyrics. If the picture had delicacy and imagination to match its competence and good humor -and if its pastoral charm had real outdoor authenticity, instead of a germless soundstage look-State Fair might have become an entertainment classic. As it stands, it should be a solid...
...life without germs possible? Pasteur thought not; he held that animals and other vertebrates need intestinal bacteria. But last week the New York Zoological Society reported experiments that seemed to prove Pasteur wrong. Zoologists had succeeded in keeping fish, chickens, guinea pigs and monkeys alive under completely germless conditions...
...from birth to full maturity.* The platyfish, not an egg-layer, bears live young. To make sure that their baby platyfish got a germ-free start, the researchers bathed the mother fish in alcohol, ether and iodine, made a Caesarean incision and gently sucked the young out of the germless oviduct with a rubber bulb, taking care not to rupture the germ-packed intestines. Then they popped the baby fishes into warm, sterile water, later transferred them to sterile, stoppered milk bottles...