Word: protozoa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also explain inheritance of germ cells through the genes, units supposed also to be giant molecules. "In any case," said Dr. Stanley last week, "it now appears possible to list protein molecules along with living organisms such as bacteria, fungi and protozoa as infectious, disease-producing agents...
...biologist in the making was doing penance one Saturday morning for his sins of omission. He was laboriously copying a vast chart, spread over two or three large tables, that was designed to explain to Anti-Clerics the Evolution of animal life, from the little Protozoa to the lower Chordates (a large group ranging all the way from she-flirts to sea-squirts). All of a sudden, into the privacy of the lonely laboratory came a troupe of smiling adults, all intent on edification. Solemnly and yet enthusiastically they took their places at the shining black tables. Then...
...responsible for the diseases which afflict man & beast. Of the diseases which men are known to contract, 123 are due to bacteria (e. g., diphtheria), 95 to worms (e. g., trichinosis), 81 to fungi (e. g., athlete's' foot), 71 to insects (e. g., scabies), 56 to protozoa (e. g., malaria), 13 to spirochetes (e. g., syphilis) and five to Rickettsia (e. g., rocky mountain spotted fever). Affiliated with these nefarious swarms are 25 scarcely identifiable "inclusion bodies" or Chlamydozoa which cause a bracket of diseases including smallpox, rabies, parrot fever...
...Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), unlearned Dutch merchant's clerk, was first man to recognize bacteria and protozoa with a microscope. But not until Louis Pasteur did anyone explain the meaning of Leeuwenhoek's "little animals." Last year Clifford Dobell, English protistologist (student of unicellular organisms), nephew of the man who invented Dobell's Solution, after learning 17th Century Dutch to interpret bad contemporary Latin translations of Leeuwenhoek's unscientific Dutch, published a Leeuwenhoek biography (Harcourt, Brace, $7.50). Its Latin dedication translates: "This work of a dead Dutchman the English editor (as an animalcule...
...Institute of Tokyo. He spent 20 years studying fish, two of them under Chancellor Jordan at Stanford. He went to Japan, returned with a stock of goldfish which he distributed about the 80 pools of Messrs. Furrow & Bailliere's Ozark Hatcheries. He introduced scientific methods for the control of protozoa flukes, fungi and other aquatic organisms, soon had a fast growing community of strong, healthy goldfish...