Word: originally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Searching for the origin of cataracts on the human eye, Dr. John M. Wheeler of New York University Medical School, like the British physiologists who plucked the eyes from unborn chicks and found that they grew in "a surprisingly natural way" (TIME, Oct. 4), ripped bits of living tissue from the eyes of chicken embryos. These bits he placed in hollow glass slides and kept in incubators. Every 48 hours the detached tissue cells reproduced themselves, proving as Dr. Alexis Carrel has been doing for almost 15 years with his chicken-heart tissue (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925), that cell life...
...requested, by Representative La Guardia of New York, to ask Secretary Kellogg to inform it of the origin of an Associated Press despatch which was allegedly inspired by some one in the State Department. The despatch talked of a "Mexican-fostered bolshevist hegemony intervening between the U. S. and the Panama Canal...
...best, borrowed from the recent production of the "Orange Comedy are very successful. The costumes of the more important characters ranged from the operatic ridiculousness of the High Priest "tastefully gowned in red with pearls and brilliants" set off with an amazing false Card of first dynasty Egyptian origin, through the anachronisms of Herod in the manner of Quentin Matsys and the Second Wise-man in that of the lamented Hoffman, in the sober and mildly successful third wiseman, the Virgan and the Angel (who in passing it may be said was most unfairly made...
...Mountain Structures and their Origin," Professor Chamberlin. Mineralogical Lecture Room, University Museum...
Game of Recent Origin...