Word: processes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disease process may begin with a small stroke, or it may be caused by a tumor. Though it is seldom seen today, a particularly common tumor among peasants of the Middle Ages, who lived close to their herds, was tuberculoma. This was often caused by the bacilli of bovine tuberculosis-the same bacteria that made the ruff fashionable to hide the swellings of scrofula ("the king's evil"). Since Joan's right-side perception was affected, the tumor would be in the left hemisphere of her brain...
...them was probably autocatalysis-the process by which a substance, as soon as a little of it is formed, speeds the formation of more of itself. This process is common in organic chemistry. Many molecules important to life are autocatalytic, and in the soupy ocean and suffocating atmosphere of the young earth their concentration would tend to increase. The porphyrins, for example, which are related to the hemoglobin of animal blood and the chlorophyll of green plants, are autocatalysts...
...conventional classroom can seem pretty cold, college dormitory little more than a nest of cells. But with the huge increases in college endowments and enrollments over the past decade, old grads have been trying earnestly to provide their sons with something better than they had themselves, in the process have launched the biggest building boom ever on U.S. campuses across the land...
Robert T. MacKenzie, visiting lecturer in Government, will give a three week seminar course at the University of Warsaw early this spring. On a leave of absence from the University of London, MacKenzie will discuss the political process in Britain...
Classroom teachers are enthusiastic, if only because they don't have to write reports on HUT's as they do for the horde of "practice teachers" from local college teacher-training programs. And the scheduling process is so flexible that teachers do not feel an HUT is trespassing on his domain. The relationship between the two "varies from flunky to research assistant, to guest lecturer," as a Newton High...