Word: slidings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heretofore, to examine cells microscopically it has been necessary to put a thin slice of tissue on a glass slide. The cells are either dead in the beginning, else die during the handling. Or it is possible to grow the cells in "tissue cultures," as Dr. Alexis Carrel has for years grown embryonic chicken tissue at the Rockefeller Institute. This in vitro method, however, fails to give an exactly truthful picture of all cell growth...
...years ago, peddling books from door to door in Kansas, Bert and Elmer Underwood threw up their jobs. They had discovered that stereoscopic pictures sold much quicker than books. In another year they had canvassers all over the Midwest selling those double-ended postcards which nice people used to slide into felt lined holders and peer at through the marvelous lenses that showed you the real Matterhorn, the actual "Scene at Brighton Beach." Aware that prosperity lay in "World Educational" pictures, the brothers shouldered their bulky cameras and in 1896 went to Europe. They "did" Egypt, Palestine, the Orient, establishing...
Spook House. For the multitude who enjoy detective stories and mystery plays in which ghastly white arms slide out of hidden panels, murdered bodies mysteriously disappear to the embarrassment of the burly and thwarted constabulary, Spook House provides staple entertainment. Its scene is laid in a mansion in Westchester County, N. Y., whose owner has been mysteriously slain and whose housekeeper creeps about presaging dire events. In addition to its standard equipment of revolvers, bowie knives and falling chandeliers, Spook House also contains one funny Irish policeman, one extremely competent and clever gunman, one beauteous female operative of the Department...
...disc on the M. I. T. instrument was keyed to a three-octave board, reproduced deep pipe organ notes. Unlike Leon Sergeievitch Theremin's "ether music" box (TIME, Sept. 30), Hardy & Brown's development does not slide from one note to another, slurring the intervening ones...
...order that he may have a B in the office. In other words the Midyear grade turns out to be a halter about the neck of the man who would reasonably better his standing. Conversely, the system enables a man in good standing at Midyears to slide his spring work down to D without any evident loss...