Word: shell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eggs & Tubes. Another type of testing is done on eggs. A girl technician examines a fertile egg under a strong light, finds the developing embryo, and cuts a square hole in the shell above it. She plants a bit of cancer on the embryo, and seals the hole with a glass window stuck on with wax. The egg is put in an incubator. As the embryo grows, the cancer grows too. The embryo's blood vessels turn aside to supply the cancer, which frequently grows until it is nearly as big as the chick. Drugs are tested by injecting...
...mile-long finger of Padre Island guards the Texas gulf coast from the Gulf of Mexico, forms the shallow waters of Laguna Madre. Within this calm lagoon one day last week, two huge Government dredges, the Caribbean and the Miami, chewed their way towards each other through mud, sand, shell and stone. About eight months ago, the Caribbean had started north from Brownsville, the Miami south from Corpus Christi. Last week the big cutting blades of the dredges slashed through the last barriers between them-completing the last link in the $80 million Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, which already stretched from...
...eight guys with the strong backs who make up the varsity shell New London is something else again. They have already been at Rep Top, Harvard rowing headquarters on the Thames just outside of New London, for two weeks...
With all this depending on the outcome of Friday's race the work at Red Top has been going on in earnest. In unremitting hot weather the shell rowed up to 15 miles a day all last week. The crew is now easing up on the distance, Bolles' theory being not to drive a crew through increasingly difficult workouts which might leave it stale on race day, but to bring it along so that it is at a mental and physical peak just for the hour of the long pull...
Fifteen years after he had married Ellen, Jack McCloy, a U.S. Assistant Secretary of War, heard Lieut. General Courtney Hodges explain that he was about to shell Rothenburg. McCloy had visited Rothenburg and he remembered it -the narrow cobbled streets within the wall, the Gothic spires, the Renaissance houses. "Do you have to destroy Rothenburg?" he pleaded. "Maybe not," said Hodges. "Maybe the town can be induced to surrender." Negotiations were begun. Next day Rothenburg surrendered, and in 1948, out of gratitude, it made Jack McCloy an honorary citizen...