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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Focsani, 100 miles northeast of Bucharest and the epicentre of the quake, was reported in ruins; Galatz, site of the German submarine base, suffered severely; and Giurgiu, principal oil port on the Danube, saw public buildings and factories reduced to mangled heaps. In Campina, thickly populated oil town, refinery chimneys toppled, houses collapsed, and pipelines burst, dousing the ground with a gummy and inflammable threat. In the heavily guarded Ploesti field a few fires broke out, were later reported extinguished. Buckled tracks, collapsed bridges, severed telephone cables and German censorship stopped traffic and disrupted communications throughout Rumania, prevented the true...
...track. Since human bile salts are close chemical relatives of the cancer-producing synthetics, he concentrated on the liver. Last week in Science he announced: "An extract has been prepared from the livers of persons who died of cancer, which on ... injection into mice produced sarcomas (cancers) at the site of injection...
...deposit, on a forty-acre farm site, contains the only reasonably complete store of Miocene fossils in the United States cast of the Rocky Mountains so far reported, Barbour said...
Theodore E. white, of the Museum staff, will work at the site this winter under a grant from the Milton Fund of Harvard. Several years of excavation will be required to piece together the picture of the fauna as found in the fossil bones...
When the Old College was built, on the site of Grays Hall, it was on the northern side of town, and it looked across a little "Yard" to the back of the old houses just as Grays does to the back of Wadsworth. The Old College of 1642 was itself much like an enlarged edition of a house, as the model in Hunt Hall shows...