Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...payoff comes after a spider has settled down to a routine of high living and weaving perfect webs of traditional pattern. Dr. Bercel then gives it no food for a day. In the evening he offers it a doctored fly-one that he has killed without damaging its form and from which he has drained the blood. He replaces this with human blood serum taken from schizophrenic patients. Since the dead fly does not buzz or struggle, Dr. Bercel fools the spider into thinking that it is alive by twanging a tuning fork (middle C) near the web. The spider...
...Crimson rugby team will be out to complete a perfect Eastern League record tomorrow at 3:15 p.m. as it meets Yale on the House Football Field in the final match of the season...
...late, Nazi-minded sister, Unity Freeman-Mitford, was once acclaimed by Adolf Hitler as the "perfect Nordic beauty...
...music that drones at times with shrill insect insistence, rises to jagged, shrieking climaxes, lapses in midphrase into sudden silences that form a weird counterpoint to sound. Most listeners will be more attracted to Webern's songs, based on such idyllic poems as Goethe's The Perfect Match ("A flowerbell blossomed early from the ground in lovely bloom...
...systems. That the job of" supervising this project, on which the survival of the U.S. depends, was not given to one of the familiar electronic giants-American Telephone & Telegraph, Radio Corp. of America, International Business Machines, General Electric, Sylvania, Westinghouse-but to Los Angeles' Ramo-Wooldridge is a perfect example of the way in which brilliant, little-known scientists are shooting up from obscurity to fame and sizable fortunes in the new age of electronics. The only atypical thing about Ramo-Wooldridge and its founders, Dean Wooldridge and Si Ramo, is the scope of their job and the size...