Word: mold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slime molds are among the most primitive of living things. Six years ago one of them, a golden yellow mold long known to botanists as Physarum polycephalum, was successfully cultured indoors by Dr. Frank Leslie Howard of Rhode Island State College. Later he turned his molds and his methods over to Dr. Seifriz. Ever since his student days at Johns Hopkins and in England, Germany, Switzerland and France, William Seifriz had hankered for generous supplies of "naked proto-plasm." Physarum polycephalum filled the bill. In a lyrical moment Dr. Seifriz called it a "great big glorious handful...
...those who knew the picture's history was not Mr. Goldwyn's superior foresight but the fact that anybody should be moved either to violent objection to the material in hand or to stubborn faith in it. Woman Chases Man is a haywire story made in the mold of the current vogue for haywire stories. After wavering on the fringes of light comedy for a little while, it sheds its inhibitions and goes whole hog into farce...
...sand-strewn Balboland?and nearly escaped all publicity. In Rome the school of opinion close to Mussolini has it that the Dictator thought what Balbo needed was not more publicity and a swelled head but tough, responsible, empire-building work likely to forge his wild daring into the mold of a mature Italian statesman. The typical Sunday supplement story has Balbo "banished to Libya," whereas Tripoli is only seven hours from Rome by the daily Italian air service and Governor Balbo continues to set foot in the Eternal City every few months, recently attended the Roman wedding of Son Vittorio...
...parlor. I watched the manicurist drop the orange stick to pick up the emery board, and so on, grudging the seconds wasted, when suddenly it occurred to me that the different tools might be at tached to various fingers. At the dentist's I borrowed some wax to mold a thimble and began to experiment with my idea." An artist and architect who uses her hands a great deal, Mrs. Greneker experimented with different materials for her tool-carrying thimbles. After discarding wax, she tried leather and cellophane, finally chose silver, christened her gadgets "Fingertips." Last week, with patents...
...difficult to explain why the Congress acted as it did on the World Court question three years ago . . . . an issue which died obediently at Mr. Hearst's command. Although his opinions and his form of journalism may be much clap-trap, it is an undeniable fact that they help mold public opinion. The record of the times, if it is to be true and impartial, must include the good and the bad. The Hearst press deserves a representative...