Word: glimmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Interpreting this letter last night, R. Thomas Seymour '64, President of the Council for Undergraduate Affairs, said he saw in it a "glimmer of hope" that the AAAAS would amend the membership clause. Last spring the HCUA rejected the AAAAS's routine request for approval because it thought the clause was "discriminatory...
...phosphatase is present in the Martian dust, it will eat away the inhibiting phosphate, and the fluid in the multivator's chambers will begin to glow. That glimmer will then be picked up by a photomultiplier tube, converted into a radio signal in the Mariner capsule, and relayed back to earth...
...boys into frenzy. As Simon scrambles out of the woods, they fall upon him and, making him surrogate for the beast, kill him. A brief and poignant scene follows: in the warm cradle of the surf Simon's small body is rocked to and fro, swaddled in a glimmer of phosphorus until it is carried...
Forced praise on our part-the glimmer of twilight...
...machine tools. Scientists probing the secrets of life have learned that enzymes are long chains of amino acids linked together in definite order and tightly coiled or folded. But no one is sure just how they work. Last week Biochemist Klaus Hofmann of the University of Pittsburgh offered a glimmer of understanding by announcing the first partial synthesis of a working enzyme...