Word: petri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living creatures harbor a variety of germs. That fact irked Pasteur and a succession of other bacteriologists. They proved that certain germs caused certain diseases. They could grow pure cultures of such germs in test tubes and petri dishes. But never alone in living creatures. Always other germs were present to contaminate the situation and possibly have an influence on the germs under study. Pasteur and successors longed for germ-free ''living test tubes." Last week Professor James Arthur Reyniers of the University of Notre Dame announced that at last he has raised Pasteur's desire-germ...
...Friday afternoons, twelve Tuesday afternoons) will remain the same, but the price of season tickets will be lower. Subscribers will pay $2 to $5 less for the long series, $1 to $2.50 less for the short. ¶ There will be the usual familiar faces among the soloists-Gabrilowitsch, Ganz, Petri-but there will also be some new ones, including Poldi Mildner, 18-year-old ''Cyclone of the Piano" whose swift, sharp, unorthodox playing last year gave Manhattan music critics food for many a journalistic difference of opinion. ¶ The trustees look for no reduction in their deficit this...