Word: newtons
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Died. Edmund Newton Harvey, 71, Princeton biology professor who developed the world's foremost laboratory for the study of bioluminescence, documented his discovery (Living Light, Bioluminescence) that light emitted by certain organisms (fireflies, squid) indicates their growth and functioning; of a heart attack; in Woods Hole, Mass. In 1931, in collaboration with New York Banker Alfred Lee Loomis, Harvey invented the centrifuge microscope, which makes cell division observable by whirling the cells at a rate of 20,000 revolutions a minute...
...Horse Soldiers (Mirisch; United Artists). "Thundah in thuh outhouse!" the startled Mississippi belle (Constance Towers) exclaims. "Them's Yankees!" Them, to be more precise, is the 1st Brigade, U.S. Cavalry. Colonel John Wayne commanding, and they are plunging along toward Newton Station in Director John Ford's $5,000,000 screen version of Grierson's Raid through the depths of Confederate territory during Grant's advance on Vicksburg. Summoning all her Southern charm, the proud beauty invites Wayne and his officers to dinner. Making the most of her downfall neckline, she leans low over the harried...
These in-service programs for school administrators have been sponsored for several years by the School of Education. This year developments will be described in the public schools of Long Beach and Ossining, N.Y.; Arlington, Va.; Glencoe, Ill.; Lexington and Newton, Mass.; and Springfield...
Crust. In Oshawa, Ont., Newton Morton was fined $10 for throwing a blueberry pie in a man's face, despite his plea that "the pie was fresh, and my mother baked...
...Sleepwalkers, by Arthur Koestler. The author, who formerly concentrated on an agonized view of political epicycles, discusses cosmology from Ptolemy to Newton...