Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Degraded Virus. The two researchers worked with the simple and well-known virus that causes mosaic disease in tobacco plants and is called TMV for short. Its particles are rod-shaped, and are known to consist of central cores of nucleic acid with protein molecules strung around them. Drs. Fraenkel-Conrat and Williams prepared pure solutions of the submicroscopic rods, mixed them with dilute alkaline chemicals and held them close to the freezing point for two to three days. This treatment "degraded" some of the virus, separating the rods into nucleic acid and protein molecules. Undegraded rods were taken...
Spare the Rod. Historian Davis has unearthed some strange phrenological lore. There was, for instance, the man who picked horses by studying the shape of their skulls. Horace Greeley suggested that in the interests of safe train travel, brakemen should have the right-shaped head. There was even phrenological housing: Orson Fowler had built a mansion in the shape of an octagon, which started quite a fashion for octagonal houses...
...readers a clear, sharp look at France's delusive, defeatist political climate. Although French business, professional and educational leaders make up two-thirds of its subscribers, the magazine frequently needles French employers for their notoriously low wage scales and bad labor relations. It has not spared the rod in criticizing the nation's backward public school system. Last week Réaltiés was coming off the presses with still another rebuke: a special on-the-spot report from Algeria on the shortsighted colonial policy that may eventually cost France much of her North African empire...
Next cliché: he decides to quit, go back to New York, find a play he believes in, recover his self-respect. Enter the Big Producer (Rod Steiger), who would be the silliest ogre since Jack and the Beanstalk if he were not at the same time a frighteningly close caricature of a well-known Hollywood type-the self-made magnate who demonstrates in his person, as Fred Allen once remarked, "the horrors, of unskilled labor." Producer lays it on the line: sign the contract or go to jail (for the hit-and-run killing of a girl, committed while...
Freshman intramural managers elected Jan Gilbert, of Grays Hall, president of their Executive Council this week. Charles Sailstad, of Straus, was chosen secretary, Rod Winn, of Matthews, publicity director, and Eric Shaw, of Thayer North, assistant secretary...