Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expert at Washington University, has been studying the rotifer, a minute animal that lives in water. Rotifers are ideally fitted for experiments on senescence : they are multicellular,* have simple brains, eye spots, and live three weeks or less. The females produce fertile eggs without male help. (The males are rare, weak, often impotent, live only 24 hours...
...should have been feeling pretty good. He had written something he had greatly wanted to write. He had heard a tough first-night audience salute it, time & again, with excited applause. He had been informed by some of the critics that Allegro was "perfect," "a work of rare distinction," something that "made history on Broadway" (the Times's Brooks Atkinson found it a thing of "great beauty and purity [which] just missed the final splendor of a perfect work of art"). And Author Hammerstein had been informed by the box office that his show had a record advance take...
Bacteria act that way only in rare genetic emergencies. Dr. Tatum selected two groups of Escherichia coli (bacteria which Jive in the intestines) and watched them. They multiplied normally by splitting in two, a solitary process. Then Dr. Tatum bombarded some of them with X rays and ultraviolet light. This damaged their insides. The metabolic cripples could still multiply by division (when coddled), but Dr. Tatum hoped that offended nature would somehow force them to repair their deficiencies...
Coincident with the quadricentenary, Widener and Houghton Libraries will place on display an exhibition of early and rare editions of the works of Cervantes in many languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Malayan, Sanskrit, and Russian. Library officials have even promised to exhibit a Spanish edition...
Much valuable psychopthic material has been provided for Ph.D. theses on the reaction of the human mind and hand to the printed page. Some people, it has been discovered, read backwards. A few rare specimens are prompted to write backwards in the text they are perusing...