Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sachs is working on colchicene, a substance which will prevent the cell walls from forming during the reproductive process. This means that the nuclei will be twice as large since the nuclei of two adjoining cells will fuse together and the doubled number of chromosomes doubles the size of the plant...
...purpose of the Conference according to its undergraduate chairman, Lawrence 1. Radway '40, will be "to provide a definite picture of the efficient government service that will be necessary to prevent our democratic government from being crushed under a heavy burden thrust upon it by the complexity of modern life...
Seeking Divorce. Sacha Guitry, 53, famed French actor-author; from his third wife, Cinemactress Jacqueline Delubac, 28; in Paris. To outwit the French divorce laws and prevent his wife from filing a countersuit on the ground that he left home, Guitry took up residence in the American Hospital...
...institution of a receptacle for returned books. If placed near the ground level, much after the fashion of the arrangement at Boylston, it would save a great many unnecessary steps, and would make it possible to return books late at night instead of early in the morning. To prevent damage to the books thus returned, a slightly inclined chute--similar to those now in use at Columbia University--might be provided. Since a delivery system is neither intricate nor expensive there should be no serious objection to its immediate installation; and if the extensive use of the Boylston chute, which...
...Black Book. With an underground reputation like Miller's, Lawrence Durrell writes less of the subject that has kept Tropic of Cancer out of the U. S. But he puts in enough words to prevent The Black Book from being published anywhere except in Paris. Less shocking than Tropic of Cancer, The Black Book follows a similar pattern, with realistic scenes giving way to tumultuous passages of invective and bitter rhapsody...