Word: slimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...central mysteries of life is protoplasm, the basic stuff of living cells. An intriguing characteristic of all raw protoplasm is its "streaming"-a flow like watery jelly. For some years Dr. William Seifriz, professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, has cultured an exceedingly primitive, golden yellow slime mold called Physarum polycephalum, just about the lowest observable form of life. In its streaming he has clocked a major rhythm of about 45 seconds (TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Rather like a primordial heartbeat, this pulse may be the ancestor of all real heartbeats...
Last week he reported in Science that this force reaches an average of almost five ounces per square inch. That is not bad for a slime mold. It is about the same pressure exerted on the bottom of a glass by eight inches of water...
...Ducky Pond arrived, and Yale was the victor, 13 to 0, Ducky sloshing through some 65 yards of Stadium slime with a Harvard fumble in his arms for the first Eli touchdown in the Stadium since 1907. Another sea battle ensued the next year, with the New Haven navy demonstrating its proficiency by a 19 to 6 score. Apparently whenever Harvard and Yale battles must end deadlocked, the result is scoreless, and 1925 was no exception, the Harvards playing hosts to Yale within their ten yard line for most of the afternoon, but preventing the Blues from scoring...