Word: mold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...central mysteries of life is protoplasm, the basic stuff of living cells. An intriguing characteristic of all raw protoplasm is its "streaming"-a flow like watery jelly. For some years Dr. William Seifriz, professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, has cultured an exceedingly primitive, golden yellow slime mold called Physarum polycephalum, just about the lowest observable form of life. In its streaming he has clocked a major rhythm of about 45 seconds (TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Rather like a primordial heartbeat, this pulse may be the ancestor of all real heartbeats...
Alert, healthy. Bob Boyer is a Ford man. Just as he now hopes to mold his plastics into cars, his habits have been molded by constant hobnobbing with Ford...
...mold "boots" (Navy lingo for recruits) into the indefinable likeness of a Marine takes hard work on a rigid regimen; close order drill, combat exercises, firing on the range that goes with every Marine camp, endless heckling by N. C. O.s until the recruits learn to keep their eyes front, their chins in, their chests out. (Because in early days Marines wore high leather stocks that kept their heads up, sailors nicknamed them "leathernecks.") To mold a boot into the traditions of the Corps, to fire him with the conviction that a Marine is better than any other fighting...
...deist who tried to found religion on the mathematical, well-oiled precision of the universe. Depth and breadth of emotion are the stuff from which any art and any religion are made. In the highest art, intellectual discipline and logic must support this emotion, must cast it into permanent mold, but in any event, the emotion must be there; intellect by itself is barren...
Last week as defeat-fluid France was poured inexorably into a Nazi mold, the U. S., like Britain before it, faced a similarly pregnant question: What if Britain should lose...