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Word: strands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question leaped into his mind: "What is the horsepower, what is the amount of force involved?" To find out, he devised a new experiment. To perform it, he takes a little piece of the mold, works it into a sort of dumbbell shape-two blobs connected by a thin strand. He puts this into an air chamber divided into two compartments by a block of agar (marked C in the diagram). The two blobs, a and b, are in separate chambers but are connected by the strand which runs through a small hole in the agar. Protoplasmic streaming from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Pulse of Protoplasm | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Radio's Aylesworth held his job for ten years, saw NBC evolve from a thin strand across the continent, linking a few stations, into a powerful network with two transcontinental chains and a host of international ramifications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Full Cycle | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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