Word: putting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy has tried to shoo the gooneys away. Sailormen have attempted to drive them out by burning old tires, scare them put by dropping flares on them and shooting off rifles, bazookas and mortars near them. When the gooneys stoically ignored it all, the Navy people called upon the scientists. The scientists tried filching the gooneys' eggs. The birds wailed like banshees at the egg snatchers, then promptly laid some more. In desperation, the Navy packed some gooneys into planes, hauled them to far-off Guam, to Kwajalein, to northern Japan, even to Puget Sound-4,000 miles away...
...found a way to make an enzyme build up nucleic acids and, in effect, create a synthetic form of RNA. Brooklyn-born Dr. Arthur Kornberg, 41, graduated from the City College of New York at 19. Working for his M.D. at the University of Rochester, he picked up hepatitis, put the experience to good use by publishing his first paper ("The Occurrence of Jaundice in Otherwise Normal Medical Students") while still a student. Explaining his year at N.Y.U. to learn about enzymes from Ochoa, Kornberg says: "I got tired of feeding things into one end of an experiment and watching...
...words, "in the public interest." Merged, they will economize by consolidating managements and by using the Virginian's better tracks eastward over the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains. The Virginian's coal piers and marshaling yard adjacent to the Norfolk Navy Base will probably be put up for sale. Estimated saving from the elimination of duplicate facilities and services: $1,000,000 per month...
...captain Bill Gundy to full time duty and with its usual fanatically tough line up front, Dartmouth was clearly the superior team. With the added advantage of having the heavy 25-mile-per-hour wind at their backs for three quarters of the game, Dartmouth handily managed to put over a second period touchdown and a fourth period field goal...
With three and a half minutes remaining in the half, Charlie Ravenel started what Crimson supporters hoped would be a march to put the favorites into the lead, but with a succession of time consuming plays, the half ended with the Crimson on the Dartmouth 27. This, perhaps, was the one time when the rain should have been neglected and an air attack employed...