Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (Robert Donat, Greer Garson; TIME, May...
...There is a great period of darkness in our understanding of what this tiny gangster does when he enters the body. He disappears for about 14 days after he enters the body and before he shows up in a living cell. It may be that a knowledge of his movements in that two weeks' spree will lead to some method of blocking his entrance...
...breaking beam of 19,000,000-volt particles. By stuffing the bacillus with radioactive phosphorus produced in cyclotron bombardments, the California researchers will ry to make it give off a continuing stream of telltale emanations. Then, after injection into laboratory animals, the emanating germ's first furtive fortnight may be observed...
...John Hundale Lawrence, who has a medical degree from Harvard. One of his latest discoveries, announced last week, is that different types of cancer cells assimilate the element phosphorus at different rates. This was learned by attaching radioactive tags to phosphorus atoms and shooting them into cancerous mice. It may eventually yield valuable clues for cancer treatment...
...secretary, claims to have originated in his stories the word Newscaster and the phrase The World of Tomorrow. Says he: "It is astonishing how many things come true." Chief themes of scientifiction are rocket trips by earth-dwellers to other planets, invasions of the earth by Martians, Mercurians. Authors may be as fantastic as they like in their inventions but publishers warn them not to do violence to the commoner scientific principles lest readers denounce their errors...