Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admire Palooka because he is the kind of fellow a lot of them (including Cartoonist Fisher) would like to be. He is big, strong, good-looking and popular; his hefty right always triumphs, often over eye-gouging, foul-fighting opponents. He hobnobs with a lot of celebrities without getting stuck up. An inveterate name-dropper himself, stocky Cartoonist Fisher populates his strip with real people, e.g., Bing Crosby, Tom Clark, Jack Dempsey, and models many of his fictional characters on other celebrities. Humphrey Pennyworth, an engaging, potbellied giant, was inspired by Manhattan Restaurant-Man Toots Shor...
...type of testing is done on eggs. A girl technician examines a fertile egg under a strong light, finds the developing embryo, and cuts a square hole in the shell above it. She plants a bit of cancer on the embryo, and seals the hole with a glass window stuck on with wax. The egg is put in an incubator. As the embryo grows, the cancer grows too. The embryo's blood vessels turn aside to supply the cancer, which frequently grows until it is nearly as big as the chick. Drugs are tested by injecting them into...
Another method is tissue culture. Bits of cancer tissue are stuck to the side of a test tube. A nutrient solution (made of such unlikely ingredients as extract of human placentas) is added. The tube is sealed and put on a vertical merry-go-round in an incubator. As the merry-go-round revolves slowly, the solution washes over the cancer tissue, which grows vigorously just as if it were in a living body. Drugs can be tested against it simply by adding them to the solution...
Before you could repeat that mouthful of title, the group was nicknamed "The Harvard Annex," and the name has stuck fast for 70 years. During that span, Radcliffe has had three presidents, a dozen-odd deans, and a faculty made up either wholly or mostly of Harvard instructors...
...Trinidad, center of a declining cattle industry. "What we have here is tranquility." He spat into a mud puddle in front of the municipalidad (city hall). "There are only six cars in all of Trinidad. We prohibit them from running when it rains. They make mudholes and get stuck. Besides, they run down our chickens and pigs...