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...monkey's muscles and chest. No other monkey had ever been so swamped with malaria. After seven days Dr. Shortt performed a careful autopsy. Said he: "I went over every conceivable piece of that monkey." In the monkey's liver he found the parasites, each one one-thousandth of an inch long...
...researchers had collared a few random facts, for what they might be worth. The cold virus can stand a lot of cold: it survived temperatures as low as -94° Fahrenheit. The virus' diameter is estimated to be one ten-thousandth of a millimeter (about the size of the influenza virus...
Last week all London was still fighting for tickets to the U.S. musical Oklahoma! But for a simple-minded evening in the theater, the British public preferred an outrageously sentimental, swashbuckling melodrama-with-music called Perchance to Dream. It celebrated its thousandth performance by packing the Hippodrome to the rafters with sniffling, wildly applauding spectators...
Nathaniel C. Nash, IV '45 crossed the threshold of the Veterans Guidance Center in the Vanserg Building last Thursday afternoon, hesitatingly took a look around, and involuntarily become the ten-thousandth man to seek the Center's advice since March, 1945 when it first opened for business...
Viruses are the smallest known disease-producing organisms: the biggest of them is less than one-hundred-thousandth of an inch in diameter. Biologists once wondered whether a virus was a living organism or just an overgrown, active protein molecule. The dispute is still not entirely settled, but the electron microscope shows that many of them look and act like living things. At a recent American Medical Association symposium, leading U.S. virologists described an amazing variety of viruses, ranging from types that attack only bacteria to those that infect...