Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their importance to science is that they have a unique hereditary defect of the sort which crops out occasionally in nature but which human investigators cannot produce at will. Some disturbance in the rat chromosomes (heredity carriers in the germ plasm) prevents their soft, prenatal cartilage from developing into a normal skeleton. The young appear normal for two weeks, then become bandy-legged as if suffering from rickets. Usually they die at the age of four to five weeks, with soft, collapsed ribs and emphysema of the lungs (air leakage into the spaces of the connective tissue...
...well-established fact of genetic science is that certain characteristics tend to be transmitted in groups. In Dr. Dunn's rats, for example, all of the soft-skeletoned individuals also have pink eyes...
...animals placed inside a striped, revolving cylinder, has tested visual acuity in such difficult subjects as snakes, frogs, toads, turtles, alligators, gophers, Gila monsters. Some months ago Rochester's psychology department chairman, Dr. Leonard Carmichael, left to become president of Tufts College. He was replaced by trim, twinkly, soft-spoken Elmer Augustine Kurtz Culler, formerly of the University of Illinois, who has made profound studies of the "conditioned response" and whose specialty is the mechanism of hearing in mammals. By last week Dr. Culler had finished installing his battery of gadgets and he was able to show Rochester newshawks...
Speaking in a soft, expressive voice, and gesticulating freely but not dramatically, small, white-haired Dean Matthews went on to explain away rationalism. Predicating his remarks with a defense of free thought, he declared that even the rationalist, who would place all faith on his own reason, was subject to the laws of probability, for human reason may not lead to truth,--may be based on false hypotheses. Moreover, some attitude must be taken toward life, for we must live; and of the several alternatives religious faith is by far the most satisfying...
...Urbane, soft-spoken Mr. Hathaway, debatably declaring that "tens of thousands of Catholics have already accepted the outstretched hand," said: "We urge a broad democratic front of Communists, Socialists, trade unionists, of Catholics, Protestants and others to resist and ultimately destroy the Fascist barbarism...