Word: mold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week under the British Raj. Dispatches announced that the resigned native cabinet of Bihar, after a little further haggling with their British governor, were also expected to withdraw their resignations. Thus His Majesty's Government, whose game is quietly to keep pressing mercurial Indians into the mold of Sir Samuel Hoare's Constitution, appeared to have gained rather than lost ground...
...remedy for an educational system which on the one hand pours youth into a mold a strict scholasticism, and on the other hand subjects it to specialized and often useless technical training, MacLean advocated the application of two educational formulae--the "formula of the triangle" and the "formula of dynamic flow...
...this land a certain one named Eng persuaded the people, who were the rulers, to let him and his nearest neighbors use privately a wheeled rocket. This was not a new, but a controversial idea, for in the past the people had agreed to mold their minds in a form that should exclude all conflict. So in a scythed field that stretched to the horizon the people gathered, and a few explained to the young what controversy meant, and soon all debated and disagreed, until the sun set blushing at their words...
...mold for forcing Hallowe'en pumpkins to grow into any desired shape...
Last summer Dr. Seifriz overwhelmed with gratitude his friends at the Pasteur Institute by taking across the Atlantic a bowlful of Physarum polycephalum. Well might they be pleased with such a thing to study for this mold in many ways is the lowest visible form of life. Bacteria are smaller than the mold cells but their claim to superlative primitiveness is "questionable" and they are harder to study. Amebas are also simple bits of protoplasm, but they have something which Physarum lacks-a contractile vacuole (cavity) which squirts body fluids to the outside...