Word: mold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognized harmonious cadences between Axis plans and his own ambitions. He was present in Munich when the mold for Europe's "New Order" was laid, and when, as a consequence thereof, Czecho-Slovakia was dismembered, he snatched morsels for Hungary. In 1939, he led Hungary out of the League of Nations and joined the New Order triumvirate as the first outside power. "I have formal assurance," he declared, "that Germany does not intend to attack either Rumania or anyone else." A few months later he was in Rome pleading with Mussolini to dissuade Hitler from occupying Hungary. War brought...
...entered industry, unionization was not far advanced in this country. Her achievement in Cleveland was in the "company union" tradition. In effect, she was the union leader and the management representative rolled into one. But as the years progressed, she proved that her mind was cast in no set mold. As unions gradually gained strength, she came to see in them the hope of labor, and recognized that her kind of work could now be carried on more effectively in cooperation with them. But for the future, the lessons she learned at Cleveland will always hold good. Even the most...
When Kamiya had seen with his own eyes the rhythmic throb of Physarum, a question leaped into his mind: "What is the horsepower, what is the amount of force involved?" To find out, he devised a new experiment. To perform it, he takes a little piece of the mold, works it into a sort of dumbbell shape-two blobs connected by a thin strand. He puts this into an air chamber divided into two compartments by a block of agar (marked C in the diagram). The two blobs, a and b, are in separate chambers but are connected...
Last week he reported in Science that this force reaches an average of almost five ounces per square inch. That is not bad for a slime mold. It is about the same pressure exerted on the bottom of a glass by eight inches of water...
...done before. It makes biology an exact science!" Furthermore, Kamiya has noted definite changes in the wave forms and amplitudes of his curves. This he takes to mean that Physarum has not just one rhythm but several rhythms acting together. In other words the life throb of the slime mold is not just a simple drumbeat; it is an orchestration...