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...whole men and women, who have such minor emotional disturbances as fear about thunder or a compulsion to twist and untwist paper clips (symbolically twisting the boss's neck). Their aggressiveness, perfectionism or shyness are not exaggerated...
Every living cell contains a minuscule amount of an extraordinary substance called DNA (for deoxyribonucleic acid) that carries in it the traits of heredity. When its home cell begins to divide, the DNA performs wondrously: its complicated molecules, ordinarily like two ropes twisted together, untwist and separate. Each rope attracts bits and pieces from fluid around it and forms a new double helix like the original one. Apportioned between the halves of the dividing cells, the duplicated DNA molecules determine whether the new individuals will be men or muskrats, pine trees or pineapples. The hereditary characteristics of the next human...
...experienced practitioner, several of the larger New England private schools have engaged his services in order to teach their pupils to hold their noses up, and his success in that field has been marked. In his six weeks of Freshman training he does as much as is possible to untwist scholarly spines and set shoulders level, but can any man correct an individual body in six weeks...
Rough crepe is an old silk product but the demand for it has always been nominal. All crepes are woven on large looms with some threads highly twisted. When the cloth is removed these threads tend to untwist, giving it a rough or pebbly appearance. Rayon, though not so elastic as silk, is also used for crepes and rayon mills are sharing in the present boom...
...Same conditions as in No. i but with the suspension lines twisted; must untwist and open...