Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potato famine provided a dramatic opportunity for the first suggestion. The scientists offered the Indians fertilizer, bug killer and a better strain of potato seed. The "medicines for the soil," as Cruz desc-ibed them, grew potatoes four to eight times bigger than Vicos had been producing. "Kcmi alii, kemi alii," said Cruz-''Very good, very good...
Only Setback. For human subjects he chose Ohio's Chillicothe Federal Reformatory. Of 30 volunteers (between the ages of 21 and 30), 26 got a minute droplet of a single strain of polio virus in a teaspoon-ul of milk. The human guinea pigs proved even more susceptible than the chimpanzees to the desired kind of infection. They did not get sick in any apparent way Yet the virus multiplied in their digestive tracts, boosted their antibody levels and was excreted in the stools for one to twelve weeks. It was in this connection Dr. Sabin reported his only...
...hope to create an informal atmosphere like Harvard has with tutors eating in the Houses," Nancy D. Campbell '56. President of SGA, said, "not like the strain of faculty coming to dinner...
...that now the British crowd is more easily enticed and dominated by mass communications, showmanship, ballyhoo, than the American crowd is. The Americans have had a great deal more of it, and for years were far more responsive to it, but while there is in them still a strain of the gullible and hysterical, there is also the work of a powerful antibody, a strain of the skeptical, the cynical . . . But the newly arrived British bring with them into this world of mass communications, shows and ballyhoo, a certain innocence, belonging to an earlier age . . . Their minds are wide open...
...Plagued by throat trouble, Kimball's singing was only the more authentic for the part. Dean Gitter, as Mack the Knife, was amusing and sleazy on cue, and when called upon near the end to carry the whole production through several numbers, rose to the occasion with no strain. He was a fine Macheath. With principals so admirably in hand, Mr. Aaron might look to The Gang, which seemed to me a little rough in the first act. Since the opera is obviously staged by perfectionists, these edges will, no doubt, be smoothed by the next performance...