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Word: mosaics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanley is a leading U.S. authority on viruses (which cause such diseases as influenza and infantile paralysis). Twelve years ago he discovered the flabbergasting fact that a certain virus (of tobacco mosaic disease) is "both living and dead": it can reproduce like a living organism but can also form crystals like a lifeless chemical substance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Provinces | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Before the yellow stucco house at No. 114 Rua 7 de Setembro in the dirty little town of Rio Casca in Minas Gerais State, some 8,000 people, a mosaic of the diseases of Brazil, had been softly singing the haunting hymn I Shall Be with My Mother. The faded grey shutters of the house swung open. A hush came over the malformed, the sick, the hopeful and the curious. One man fell on his knees. Behind him a weeping father supported a son on whose face was an idiot's grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Miracle Man | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...answered grimly, and stealing only a slight glance at her white-socked legs as she danced to a seat in the front, returned to the mosaic he was working on his notebook cover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/8/1947 | See Source »

Blended smoothly into the bright multicolored mosaic of the United Nations last week were the blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue, red and white of Iceland, and the black, red and green stripes of Afghanistan, all newly admitted to the U.N. A. Hosayn Aziz of Afghanistan was first to pen his signature to the instrument of adherence, followed by Thor Thors, Iceland's Minister to the U.S., and Oesten Unden, Foreign Minister of Sweden. Elected to the Security Council as temporary members were Belgium, Colombia and Syria; they will replace The Netherlands, Mexico and Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: New Colors | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...went to Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley, also of Rockefeller-at-Princeton. Stanley was the man who threw a bomb into science (and philosophy and religion) by finding a Thing which acted like an inanimate chemical and also like a living, growing organism. It was the virus which causes the "mosaic disease" in tobacco plants. It can spread from plant to plant, multiplying within the living cells, apparently living itself. Dr. Stanley tricked it into a test tube, where it quieted down, the "living" molecules stacking together into protein crystals. But within this seemingly dead chemical, the spirit of life remained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobelmen of 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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