Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Ubico became Dictator, La Maciste moved up with him. She imitated her boss in every way, smoked the same cigarets, drove the same make of car. The Dictator's license plate is No. 5; La Maciste...
...ascertained that: 1) the strange liquid did not harm fresh leucocytes (white blood corpuscles); 2) injections of the liquid did not hurt mice; 3) some bacteria (e.g., whooping cough bacillus) lived in the liquid as cozily as in a baby's throat. Modest Dr. Fleming saved the moldy plate as a souvenir, still...
...story of his discovery is legendary. Back in 1928 Alexander Fleming, M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S.,* taught bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, University of London. In his small, old-fashioned laboratory, he grew staphylococci in petri plates (flat glass culture dishes). One day he found that mold had spoiled one of his cultures. Staphylococcus grew on only half of the plate. A blue-green mold spotted, but did not cover, the other half...
...Boston Braves' baffler throws a poky knuckle ball that dips and waltzes down & out just as it reaches the plate. Said the Dodgers' Mickey Owen last week: "What we needed was a net." Tobin walked Paul Waner, the first man up; breezed by the next 26; walked Waner again in the ninth, struck out Dixie Walker to end the game (2 to 0). Tobin himself hit a home run for good measure. Afterwards he guessed aloud that he was just about 'as happy as the time he hit three home runs against the Chicago Cubs...
...glamor girl of 1937, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10.000.000); and Brigadier General Edward Harrison Alexander, 42, commander of the Caribbean wing of the Air Transport Command; she for the second time, he for the first; at Mor rison Field, West Palm Beach. Her marriage to Henry J. Topping Jr., tin-plate heir ($9,000,000), who is now a naval lieutenant overseas, ended in divorce last year...