Word: variants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been shown that malignant cells can be fooled into accepting a phony metabolite, or "antimetabolite." When it was shown in 1954 that solid cancers have an abnormal appetite for the metabolite called uracil, the University of Wisconsin's Dr. Charles Heidelberger set about making a phony variant of uracil. With Dr. Robert Duschinsky of Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., he quickly found a way to make one by substituting an atom of fluorine for one of hydrogen at the No. 5 position on the molecular ring-hence, 5-fluorouracil. Many of the cancer cells accept 5-fluorouracil in place...
...testing, as with the single term paper. Knowing that each paper will not count so heavily in terms of a grade, the student is encouraged to write more daringly and imaginatively. He has the chance, also, to purge his writing of that turgid idiom, Scholar-speak, a variant of English considerably less clear and lucid than Time-style...
...follows Ruth and, improbably, is able to make his way into the death pen, where she is kept in a harem for the camp guards. He tries to smuggle her out. Reality obtrudes, and the film ends as they are climbing over the fence. It is a variant of the Orpheus legend, and it is not the fault of the lovers, who are acting in their first film and are touching and believable, that the retelling is not wholly a success. But it is too early for tender legends set in such a background. One does not see Orpheus...
...testing, as with the single term paper. Knowing that each paper will not count so heavily in terms of a grade, the student is encouraged to write more daringly and imaginatively. He has the chance, also, to purge his writing of that turgid idiom, Scholar-speak, a variant of English considerably less clear and lucid than Time-style...
Everything he asks is a variant on this single theme: 1) his proposal for a French-British-U.S. directorate of NATO; 2) his attempts to shape the European Common market into a French-dominated confederation; and 3) his insistence on developing his own nuclear bomb and defense forces-arguing that France cannot depend on anyone else, not even the U.S., to protect it in case of Soviet attack...