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What the ultracentroscope does is to isolate the molecule for study. It takes a specimen of the blood and whirls it around at a rapid rate until the heavier disease molecule drifts away from the other, normal molecules. By taking pictures of the path of this heavy molecule while it is being spun around, the presence, density, and influence of it in the blood can be determined...
Nine years later, the Yale administration tech another swipe at unrestrained student leadership and abolished the position of class leader. Each Yale class had usually elected its finest specimen as Class Bully. His official duty, for which he was equipped with a fine ebony mace, was to lead his class when, they warred with New Haven townies. The 1839 Class Bully was a game gent who, as a gag, led his class in a town and gown riot on commencement day just as the procession of the president and dignitaries started. The president tried to squelch the riot, but failed...
Young Boswell was by turn gay and uncontrollably depressed (a brother and daughter went insane). He feared the dark, was mortally afraid of ghosts and shifted from uneasy lack of confidence to unattractive smugness. "Upon my soul," he wrote of himself, "not a bad specimen of a man ... I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind. But I am much afraid that this blossom will never swell into fruit...
...villainy of all kinds wildly entertaining. He is convinced that man's inhumanity to man-whether expressed in a simple hotfoot or an atomic explosion- is the basis of all humor, and he can discuss grafters, murderers and wife-beaters as delightedly as a zoologist describing a sporty specimen of toad or bloodworm. Capp is a large-framed, large-headed, exuberant man with a shock of black hair, bottomless energy and a bullfrog voice. He often climaxes a denunciation of some awful piece of skulduggery by bursting into ribald laughter and bawling, "Charming! Charming...
...cattle, rode into action crouched on the back of a cow. To the same category belongs the cat who specialized in rabbiting and who one day caught a black one. This, according to the story, he hastily brought home to his mistress, "clearly recognizing it was an unusual specimen"-and also hoping, no doubt, add the Lockridges, "that [she] would have an interesting explanation of the phenomenon...