Word: nuclei
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed A Study of the Liberal College (TIME, May 4), proposed that "a crisis confronts the American college. . . whose true significance is not always understood. The college is suffering from the results of its own success." He spoke of the schools now growing up around liberal arts nuclei at universities as definitely vocational in character and effective in operation. By comparison, the liberal arts nuclei are of low intellectual tone, their students concealing beneath an assumed pride in a jovial, carefree life, the black despair of an inferiority complex...
...passage in a recent resolution reads: "The M. O. P. R. must organize Communist nuclei among the lower classes and carry on all work under the plea of relieving champions of the revolution or national emancipation of Oriental people. The M. O. P. R. must maintain close contact with the party and Soviet Govern-ment organs...
...shown that electrically charged rays (alpha, beta or gamma) are deflected by electric or magnetic fields, and produce ionization of gases through which they pass, i.e., electrons are dislocated from their atoms, and the resulting particles, called ions, become carriers of electrical currents. These gaseous ions may also become nuclei for the condensation of water vapor, just as dust particles help to form clouds and precipitate rain. It is, of course, possible that Venus affects terrestrial weather directly by magnetic or electrostatic influences. But it is more likely that it interferes with the solar radiations on their...
...Albrecht Kossel (1853-), German, professor of physiology at Heidelberg, distinguished for research in chemical composition of cells and nuclei...