Word: molecular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least I should not like to have you think that he is. He is perfectly able to accept, for a time being, a system of kinetc equations embracing the data of photosynthesis as picturing the known essence of the mechanism of this process. He also wants to learn the molecular inwardness of the matter, the kinetic mechanism with all its defects serving as a ladder toward specific experimental inquiry. He is not so crude as to look for a nexus of springs pulling dashpots through baths of hydraulic oil when he peers at muscle fibers in electron microscope pictures, though...
...drawn a theory on the origin of the earth-now probably the ranking theory among astronomers. He hypothesizes that the solar system was once all dust, and that the dust collected to form planets. And what, at first, drove the dust together? Not gravity, says Whipple, and not molecular attraction--but the seemingly insignificant push exerted by light beams, streaming out from...
...satellites of the earth, moving on orbits in the earth's gravitational field. Some are shooting up, others curving back. Some may be moving around the earth like infinitesimal moons. A few may escape from the earth entirely. For brief minutes, the WAC Corporal joined this throng of molecular wanderers...
Recently, for instance, Superman ran up against a mad genius called "Ghost Voice." Like any normal mad genius, Ghost Voice intended to conquer the world, and, through his familiarity with such contrivances as rocket-ships and atomic persuaders, damn near succeeded. But after weathering several molecular blasts, Superman balked the "power-crazed demon," who had had the United Nations eating out of his hand. Immediately following this chilling epic, however, Superman dawdled a whole fortnight, breaking up a dowdy bunch of racketeers engaged in fixing football games...
...Department's scientists consider their results inconclusive, but definitely promising. They have a lot more chemicals to try, and they have already established that slight changes in a compound's molecular structure sometimes make it more poisonous to insects or less poisonous to higher animals. Eventually they hope to find a Jekyll-Hyde chemical that will flow harmlessly in the veins of humans, but knock off any insect that sucks the human's blood...