Word: nuclei
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...love with him to restore him to the throne. As a subplot there is a prince, the destined husband of the king's daughter, who meets the princess incognito so as to be loved for himself alone. Other playwrights have employed dramatic or humorous incidents from nuclei as unpromising as this. But the lines of the present attraction at the Apollo are so amateurish and crudely done that there is no such happy issue. When comedy is the object, the authors take such labored pains to make their point obvious that any possible effect is lost, and in one appalling...
Presiding and directly representing the Third International sat Comrade Rykov, said to be a relative of Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Alexei Ivanovich Rykov. To him the assembled agents reported their activities and successes of the past twelvemonth, particularly with reference to the establishment of "Communist Cells" or nuclei in the principal armies and navies of the world...
This city is a curious anomaly. In the beginning, and for long afterwards, Harvard was Cambridge. A few decades ago the present city started mushrooming up, with nuclei in business and manufacturing centers far from Harvard Square, and the University, once the center, was swallowed in a city extraordinarily occupied with industry...
Effects. Hurtling into a crowded world of molecules, the stream of electrons (cathode rays) bombarded whatever they met so violently that the electrons of that world were knocked abruptly out of their orderly orbits around protons (positive atomic nuclei). Instantly, X-rays were set up in the local ether. As the dislocated electrons struggled back to their original positions they made another kind of vibration, weaker than X-rays and visible as bright luminosities. Thus, as soon as the 350,000 volts were switched on, a purple ball appeared at and enveloped the "window" end of the tube, caused...
...mouth. It may also cause bronchopneumonia, meningitis, endocarditis, and septicemia. It gives out a very strong toxin, which the kidneys eliminate wth frequent damage to themselves. The germ induces in the lungs, in lobar pneumonia especially, a copious exudation of protective serum. Then come the polymorphonuclear (of many-shaped nuclei) leucocytes, which surround the invading germs and eat them (phagocytosis...