Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organic compounds have been synthesized, it is chemical custom to call "organic" any compound, however formed, that contains carbon, since carbon is a notable component of plants and animals. Lately Rockefeller Institute researchers have isolated in the form of crystals a virus which causes a plant disease called tobacco mosaic. The virus seems to consist of a protein molecule with a molecular weight of several million units. In most respects it is not alive; the crystal structure, for example, is typical of inanimate materials such as metal. But when it makes contact with plant tissue, the molecules at once acquire...
...rehung with what paintings had not been given to galleries, the long-time citadel of Chicago society was open for the first time in two years for the debut of the Palmers' youngest daughter Pauline. That night 300 socialites rolled up to the carriage porch, hurried across the mosaic reception hall, danced in the highceilinged, velvet-paneled ballroom where the first Mrs. Palmer entertained King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales. Dark were two unfurnished upper stories. After the debut, the Palmers moved back to their apartment...
...DATES-Enid Bagnold-Morrow ($1.50). THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL PEPYS-Franklin P. Adams-Simon & Schuster ($6). During the War Enid Bagnold ("National Velvet") worked in a hospital in a London suburb, kept a diary, fragments of which were published in 1919. An oblique, suggestive little volume, a mosaic of impressions, it created a small literary sensation, led to the dismissal of its 19-year-old author for "a breach of military discipline." While it is not a record of the horrors of War in a conventional sense, A Diary Without Dates is charged with a sense of pain...
...adrenal glands excrete adrenalin which makes the liver and muscles pour their stored-up sugar into the blood stream where it becomes available for work, pleasure or refreshment. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. focused the magnifying eye of its advertising department upon that minuscule chip in the large mosaic of scientific facts about tobacco, burst forth with this advice: "Get a Lift with a Camel...
...then it has met in England. The Netherlands, the U. S., once every three or four years. Last week it wound up its fifth congress in Paris, with 300 astronomers from 25 nations in attendance. Meeting. The Congress: ¶Planned an international map of the nearby sky, an enormous mosaic to consist of 11,000 photographs of which 8,000 are already available. ¶Recommended abandonment of 12-hour time notation, adoption of 24-hour time, already in fairly wide use in Europe. Dropped in 24-hour time are "a. m." and "p. m.," 1 p. m. becoming...