Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge Beat. Gone are the days of heartfelt gemutlichkeit over a cup of coffee, lasting sometimes 'til gray dawn. This action imperils also that welcome respite from the bombast of the lecture hall; even the non-bohemian, more conventional student will have to consider seriously the financial strain of the between-class coffee break. Waldorf's in its wishy-washy way, has compromised. It has adopted a minimum charge, which begins only after...
Historically, U.S. interest rates have almost invariably risen during recovery periods, when increased credit-buying by consumers and increased borrowing of expansion capital by industry have put a strain on the money supply. And last week the U.S. economy showed every sign of having completed its convalescence from the 1961 recession: in November, Washington reported, retail sales shot to an all-time monthly high of $19.3 billion, 5% over November a year ago, and the Federal Reserve Board's industrial production index also reached a record level of 114% of the 1957 average...
...Infective Heredity." Recent research, said Dr. Horsfall, has shown that gene mutations can be produced by changes in the environment, and the mutant strains will breed true. It began, he recalled, with the little-recognized achievement of three Rockefeller Institute scientists, Drs. Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty in 1944. They showed that if nucleic acid from the genetic material of one strain of pneumococcus germs was stirred in with a batch of pneumococci of another strain, the second strain picked up the inherited traits of the first, and then, "in enduring continuity," bred true from cell to daughter...
...throws them away. In their place, it issues orders for the production of nothing but hundreds or thousands of copies of itself, plus an equal number of protein coats to fit. The cell-factory rushes to fill the massive order. It becomes strewn with waste materials. The strain tells. About the time the cell fills the invader's order and completes a myriad new molecules of nucleic acid, it falls into irreparable ruin. And just in time, the new molecules pick up their freshly tailored protein coats, leave the cell and go off in search of new cell-factories...
...question of how much of his faith is the result of his blindness to the facts of his own existence, are not fit topics for comedy. They may be of immense interest to Bergman, but they do not belong here, and the movie's comic structure cannot stand the strain they impose...