Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Berlin's Illustrierte Zeitung last week got around to publishing the photograph purportedly taken by a Nazi fighting plane which followed a Nazi bomber in the first air raid on the Firth of Forth three weeks ago. A cloud of smoke was shown over the cruiser Edinburgh, described as...
So afraid is he of being considered high-hat that he waves to everyone he meets on campus, never misses football practice, belittles his own talents, bends over backward to praise his teammates. After he scored all 27 points in the Iowa game three weeks ago, he said: "Anybody could...
Ohio State, with a 215-lb. quarter back named Don Scott and two Brobdingnagian tackles - 225-lb. Jim Daniell and 260-lb. Jim Piccinnini - looked like the No. 1 threat. Considered only fair-to-middling at the start of the season, the Buckeyes sprang the surprise of the Big Ten...
The 1939 prize was ticketed for Professor Gerhard Domagk of Germany, who first showed the efficacy of prontosil (forerunner of the miracle-drug sulfanilamide) in treating streptococcal infections. The Nobel committee thus serenely ignored Adolf Hitler's ban on Nobel Prizes for Germans, wrathfully decreed by the Fü...
Highlights of last week's convention of the National Academy of Sciences at Brown University (Providence, R. I.): Totipotency. When a flatworm (Planaria maculata, which inhabits fresh water) is cut into pieces, each piece will grow into a healthy and flawless new flatworm. Just how this marvelously convenient process...