Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...border line between the living and nonliving hovers a mysterious invisible substance: the virus. Some scientists think the virus is the most primitive form of life; others insist it is a heavy protein molecule, with complex chemical reactions, a kind of crystal which exists as a parasite on living tissue. But whatever the nature of the virus, one fact is certain: it is the foe of all living things, from microbe...
Last week famed Biologist Kenneth Manley Smith of Cambridge University published a full account of this hostile force called The Virus, Life's Enemy (Macmillan, $2). Salient facts...
...will enforce this new regulation through its 27 offices and seven monitor stations throughout the country. With no alien operator among the hams, and 7,500 of them in the Naval Communication Reserve and the Army Amateur Radio System, it is unlikely that FCC suspects any strong fifth-column virus in their ranks. Largely precautionary, FCC's new ruling is designed to make quisling hams stand out boldly if they attempt any aerial shenanigans with Governments abroad...
...that time Dwight Macdonald had belatedly capitulated to the Depression's reddest virus, become an apostate from business and grown a (small) Trotsky ite beard. He took up with anti-Stalinists Rahv, Phillips and Dupee. Into the picture, as angel, swam George Lovett Kingsland Morris, who had spent his time collecting and even painting abstract art. Result: the rebirth in December 1937 of Partisan Review, as a vigorously, snobbishly radical and experimentalist literary monthly (later quarterly, now six times a year) which snubbed Dictator Joe Stalin, smiled kindly at Comrade Leon Trotsky...
Exactly how the soap works-whether it dissolves the "armor" of the virus, or clutches it in a chemical grip-Drs. Stock & Francis have not yet discovered. Nor are they quite ready to try their mixture as a vaccine on human beings...