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Degraded Virus. The two researchers worked with the simple and well-known virus that causes mosaic disease in tobacco plants and is called TMV for short. Its particles are rod-shaped, and are known to consist of central cores of nucleic acid with protein molecules strung around them. Drs. Fraenkel-Conrat and Williams prepared pure solutions of the submicroscopic rods, mixed them with dilute alkaline chemicals and held them close to the freezing point for two to three days. This treatment "degraded" some of the virus, separating the rods into nucleic acid and protein molecules. Undegraded rods were taken...
...never lets out of his keeping. It includes his soil-test figures (he can get free tests done either by the Tennessee state laboratories or by a fertilizer company that offers the service), a chart of his program for terracing and contouring and planting, and an aerial photo-mosaic with contour and field lines superimposed. So far, Joe has put in 4,000 ft. of terraces and drainage ditches, converted about 90 acres from thicket to permanent pasture...
...early 14th century and later converted into a mosque. With official blessing, the restorers went to work, soon realized that they had found a new jewel case of Byzantine art. With the job only three-fourths completed, their most significant find has been a set of 18 mosaic panels depicting the life of the Virgin Mary. Says Professor Paul A. Underwood, field director of the Istanbul project, who this week reports on the restoration work to the World Byzantine Congress in Istanbul: "Kariye Camii is the best sample we have of late Byzantine...
Kariye Camii was rebuilt in the early 1300s as a monastery church within Constantinople's mighty walls, at the order of a wealthy courtier, Theodore Metochites. All evidence indicates that the church was decorated by mosaic masters who were buoyed up by the same fresh new breeze of discovery that in the West heralded the first stirrings of the Renaissance. Into the rigid Byzantine forms that had governed Eastern religious art for almost a thousand years, Byzantine artists poured a new warmth drawn from revived classic models...
...wench." After all, "perfectly honorable people are nudists, and . . . nudism [is] not a crime." Pegler's charge that Reynolds proposed marriage to Heywood Broun's widow in the car on the way to Broun's grave was not libelous either, said the lawyers, since even the Mosaic Code imposes "upon a brother the duty of proposing to his dead brother's widow." As for Pegler's charge that Reynolds had "a yellow streak glaring for the world to see," that kind of writing is just "gloating in jesting terms" and does no one any harm...