Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fellow of the University, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and former associate editor of the Harvard Law Review, began practicing law in Maryland and served as assistant Attorney General of Maryland before his war-long association with the legal staff of the War Department...
...sexually (by simple division) and by a kind of primitive pairing. Several years ago, Dr. Sonneborn discovered that special strains of paramecia give off a poison (paramecin) that kills normal paramecia. The "killers" differ from the "sensitives" in only one known respect: the amount of a substance called "kappa" which they contain...
...paramecium, to rate as a killer, has to contain at least 200 particles of kappa. If it has less, it is a sensitive, and can be destroyed by killers with plenty of kappa. Dr. Sonneborn discovered that sensitive paramecia can be turned into killers at will. He put sensitive paramecia into a solution of mashed killer paramecia. Half of the sensitives absorbed kappa particles, which turned them into killers. Their descendants were killers...
Radcliffe's Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa added four members of the Class of 1948 to its roster last week...
Sixteen men, including twelve Seniors and four Juniors, were elected to Phi Bota Kappa in a meeting of the University's Alpha Chapter Wednesday. Eight of the men graduated at the close of the summer term...