Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leslie Howard is recognized as one of the really fine actors in Hollywood and even though he seems to have risen above his normal performance in "The Petrified Forest," we rather expect it of him. The really good news from this picture is that Bette Davis is capable of taking her place in the same top rank with Howard. Their acting alone would make it imperative that the picture be recommended, but even higher praise is due when the rest of the cast is above the usual level of mediocrity among the minors...
...charts clearly showing a gene maneuver associated with the appearance of abnormally small eyes in the fly. This mutation, discovered in 1913, was christened "Bar." Some true-breeding strains showing the Bar mutant developed other mutations in which the eye was even further reduced ("Bar-double") or returned to normal ("Bar-reverted...
Down toward the base of the X-chromosome is a sudden bulge followed by a gradual tapering to normal diameter. This is the "turnip segment." It contains, first, a heavy band in two segments, then a faint dotted line, a stronger dotted line, a diffuse double line, a faint dotted line. In the Bar flies Dr. Bridges found this arrangement in duplicate. In the Bar-double it was tripled. In the Bar-reverted it returned to the single sequence...
...Thus far in 1936," wrote President Cunningham, "the unprecedentedly severe weather has impeded retail trade, especially in stores serving rural communities, and likewise made it difficult for buyers to come to market. . . . The tone of business is good, and we have every confidence that as soon as weather becomes normal, increases in volume will resume...
...Kansas City, American Butter Co.'s President L. H. Smith astonished his friends by cracking open a normal-looking egg out of which fell a hollow cork out of which Mr. Smith took a note written to himself. To prepare the trick, Robert E. Phillips Jr., postgraduate student of poultry husbandry at Kansas State College, had busied himself anesthetizing hens, inserting in their egg ducts hollow corks containing notes to Mr. Smith. Finally a hen laid an egg with a cork...