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...foreign business and intrigue than State Department veterans. A small but specialized group, they represented a fact about U.S. business: that in the course of doing from $3 billion to $13 billion worth of exporting and importing each year since World War I, it has developed at least the nucleus of a new professional class. With the U.S. on the threshold of waging economic war on many fronts (see p. 69), professionals are needed. It is no longer possible to hire Britons. The men at last week's little reunion knew all this. Through their talk ran speculation about...
Shaler Hall will form the nucleus of the University's scientific workers and students in forestry. Harvard's forest models, and exhibits of forest life and phases of silviculture will be housed in Fisher Museum...
...removing ova from virgin females, fertilizing the ova with a salt solution, replanting the fertilized eggs in other females to gestate (TIME, April 6, 1936). Last week Dr. Keith Roberts Porter of the Rockefeller Institute announced that he had produced a greater wonder: motherless tadpoles. He removed the nucleus from a frog's egg at the moment of fertilization, but before it could unite with the nucleus of the male sperm. This made the mother's contribution apparently a mere anonymous drop of protoplasm with no inheritable characteristics, while the sperm alone contributed a share of genes...
...Scientists do not try to visualize the atom; its mechanics are too complex, too alien to the familiar things of life. Laymen can visualize it after a fashion by imagining a heavy nucleus composed of protons and neutrons clumped together sur rounded by a sort of throbbing mist of electrons...
These scripts will form the nucleus of the collection now being built up for the use of students in Summer School dramatic courses, but it will also be available for all members of the University...