Word: molding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four. Perry Jones (TIME, Aug. 12, 1946), mother hen of California's tennis chicks, was the first of four men who helped mold Jake Kramer into a champion. Fussbudget Perry Jones-who says "I don't care how you hit your backhand . . . how do your pants look?"-liked the kid's looks; he was neat and polite. At Jones's suggestion the Kramer family moved in closer to Los Angeles where many of the good tennis players lived...
...skirmish. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, imperious oracles of the dressmakers, sounded the call. Unabashed, they now cried that what was black had become white, that there was no figure but the hourglass figure and that salvation lay in what Harper's called the new "Mold of Fashion...
...Prime Minister Clement Attlee was at last frightened out of his quite-quite attitude. He called a Cabinet meeting-the most momentous since Labor was elected to plan Britain's future in the Socialist mold...
...Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass, (where the lecture-hall pointer is a fishing rod), a young Harvard biologist, Dr. John T. Bonner, is getting some of the answers. He works with a curious "slime mold," Dictyostelium discoideum, of the order Acrasiales, whose cells live alone and like it, but can also organize into a multicelled creature...
Many other biologists have studied Dictyostelium discoideum and related Acrasiales.* One slime-mold expert, Dr. K. B. Raper, of the Department of Agriculture, discovered (among other things) that the ultimate fate of the individual amoeba depends on how quickly it joins the aggregation. Latecomers form parts of the disc which supports the stalk; they die at the final breakup. The early birds form parts of the stalk itself; they die too. Only the middle-of-the-roaders, who arrive neither late nor early, live to continue the race...