Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What makes the red cells stick together? A member of Knisely's group has already discovered an important clue: a sticky coating on the cells (not found in normal blood) has tentatively been identified as a protein. Somehow disease or injury causes the body to deposit this sticky material on the red cells...
...Bennett and his new servant, traveling through the hills, took by surprise a village where the forbidden "rope festival" was about to be held. In this rite, believed to make the fields fertile, the sacrificial victim had a sporting chance; he had to ride a forked stick down a rope stretched from a 500-ft. cliff to the fields below...
Every conceivable mode of transportation but the page stick will take part in the mass exodus of Crimson students today and tomorrow morning for the Yale gridiron battleground at New Haven, Connecticut...
...bankers did not need the warning. The American Bankers' Association had already asked its 15,000 members to stick to the one-third deposit in automobile financing, soft-pedal loans in other lines. Consumer credit now totals $11 billion, far above any prewar figure. With personal income running at $194 billion, the U.S. could support more credit, but no one knew how much more. Some thought that the danger mark was at $17 billion...
...House libraries except Eliot and Winthrop will stick to their usual schedule. The Eliot librarians will keep their doors closed until 1:30 in the afternoon while their Winthrop neighbors, opening at the unusual morning hour, will close an hour earlier, at 11 o'clock at night...