Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wacker reported that the organism--grown either in light or in darkness--develops "profound and complex lesions" when the growth medium is deficient in the trace metal, zinc. Under such conditions, Dr. Walker noted, growth was severely limited and cell division was halted. The cell size increased eight-fold under conditions of extreme zinc deficiency...
...reproduction. Drawings constitute close to one half of the show. It was with drawings that Vincent started his career: they are tremendously powerful, he employs the same angular lines as in his paintings, and his later sketches achieve the same movement. But color is van Gogh's true medium...
What worries Ford is that U.S. auto buyers have recently shown a tendency to switch back from small economy cars to the old standard or medium-priced models...
...operation last week, humming softly while green lines measuring its power drifted across the face of an oscilloscope. Called the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, the machine cost $12 million (paid by the Atomic Energy Commission), is 236 ft. in diameter, and consumes enough electricity at full power to operate 40 medium-sized TV stations. Its practical use is nil. It will never freshen sea water, cure cancer, or solve any other specific problem of applied science. But in the hands of Harvard and M.I.T. scientists, it will probe far beyond the frontier of present physical knowledge. No one knows what waits...
...admirers have been trying to focus more light on the dark room. Their efforts came to a climax last week with the opening of a major Marin retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.* Of the 91 paintings on display, more than a third are oils, a medium in which the famed watercolorist was fully at home...