Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FROM HIS HEREDITY experiments in the 19th century, Gregor Mendel concluded that smooth, green peas are dominant over wrinkled yellow ones, implying that three peas in a pod are not necessarily alike. The Currier House Fishbowl productions of three one-act plays support that basic tenet of biology...
...lawyers. Ever since Confucius, the Chinese have valued collective harmony over the assertion of individual rights and the adversary system now characteristic of American justice. Lawyers did not practice privately in China until after the 1911 Nationalist revolution, because laws banned the "fomenting" of litigation, lest it disturb the smooth fabric of Confucian society. "It is better to enter a tiger's mouth than a court of law," goes another Chinese proverb...
...surface of Callisto, the outermost of these moons, is riddled with craters, apparently the result of pummeling by meteorites for some 4 billion years. Although it is mountainless, Callisto has a feature never before seen in the solar system: a huge, smooth, circular basin rimmed with concentric ridges that look almost like a frozen tsunami (tidal wave). Appearances may not be entirely deceiving: the scientists speculated that these ridges were created when a particularly large meteorite hit, melted subsurface ice and caused the water to spread out from the place of impact, only to freeze rapidly again...
Koshlan explained that biochemists are able to determine how bacteria are feeling by observing their paths in microscopes. Bacteria that are in supportive environments tend to swim in smooth paths, while bacteria in "obnoxious" environments, repelled by chemicals or extreme temperatures, "tumble" as they travel...
...paddled their way into the big finals of the evening's third race, the 200-yd. backstroke, the Crimson jumped out to a commanding 55-point lead. Freshman Raikula became the meet's third double winner (Cornell diver Paul Steck later became the fourth), demonstrating the art of ultra-smooth backstroke for eight laps and a meet-and pool-record time...