Word: proto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successfully cultured indoors by Dr. Frank Leslie Howard of Rhode Island State College. Later he turned his molds and his methods over to Dr. Seifriz. Ever since his student days at Johns Hopkins and in England, Germany, Switzerland and France, William Seifriz had hankered for generous supplies of "naked proto-plasm." Physarum polycephalum filled the bill. In a lyrical moment Dr. Seifriz called it a "great big glorious handful...
...Flinders Petric, British archacologist, visited the temple and the mines and found proto-Sinattic inscriptions in an unknown script, apparently a Semitic alphabet derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, of great interest to philologists. Harvard expeditions in 1927 and 1930 visited Serabit and carried forward Petrie's investigations of the temple and mines, but no excavation of the temple was attempted...
...Paul Wilhelm Karl Rothemund explained that grass is green because out of water and the chemicals of earth it, like all plants, manufactures a colorless substance called proto-chlorophyll. Proto-chlorophyll accumulates in certain cells of leaves called chloroplasts where it comes in contact with carbon dioxide in the air. When the sun is shining a molecule of proto-chlorophyll, stimulated by an atom of magnesium which holds it together, absorbs four quanta of energy from a sunbeam. The extra energy enables the proto-chlorophyll to attract carbon dioxide, kick off the oxygen which it does not require, absorb...
Bardstown loves its legends and of these the Foster story is by no means the dearest. That story concerns Louis Philippe, King of France and his gifts to St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Proto-Cathedral in Bardstown. Rich indeed were Louis Philippe's gifts, if indeed he gave Bardstown a Murillo Virgin, three van Dycks, two van Eycks, a Rubens. If the collection is authentic, it would easily fetch...
...Algonquion came from the northwest, skirted the Great Lakes, spread over the Atlantic seaboard from Labrador to North Carolina. Some turned south into Tennessee where they were stopped by a wave of Sioux pushing straight across the country from the southwest. From the southwest also came the Muskhogean and proto-Muskhogean peoples who trickled into the Gulf States (Choctaw, Creek, Chicksaw). From the Ozark Mountains in Missouri the Iroquois crossed the Mississippi River. Tennessee and Kentucky, split into two groups. One turned north and settled around Lakes Erie and Ontario. The other (Cherokee) kept straight ahead until they reached...