Word: weak
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...Chromosome patterns or "karyotypes" are usually made by taking white blood cells, growing them in the laboratory and dousing them with a weak salt solution. This explodes the cells, separating the chromosomes. These are stained, spread on a slide and photographed. From an enlargement, pairs of chromosomes are laboriously cut out, paper-doll fashion, lined up by size and shape in seven groups, and numbered from one to 22 (the "Denver classification"). X and Y are usually placed...
...describe this week's 94th Kentucky Derby is to say that it bears a certain resemblance to a political campaign. The original favorite was Ogden Phipps's Vitriolic, last year's two-year-old champion and winner of $429,896, who has since developed weak knees and will sit out the race. Hirsch Jacobs' Wise Exchange made a good showing in the primaries, winning two big winter stakes in Florida, but he is footsore from his strenuous campaign (27 races in two years) and has also been scratched. There is no shortage of favorite sons: Derby...
Harvard coach Jack Barnaby views Navy and Yale as the chief remaining opponents. After entertaining a weak Columbia team today, Harvard will battle the midshipmen at home on Saturday. Yale will challenge the Crimson in New Haven...
Most of the enthusiasm was not translated into specific plans for operating the university without an administration, or with a very weak one. But one member of the SDS steering committee, Ed Hyman, outlined a plan which he said he will soon present to the students...
...assassin two weeks ago, the students staged violent and bloody demonstrations in virtually every major city. Last week, bruised and battered from police truncheons, they were having some second thoughts about the efficacy of violence. They had, in fact, found neither violence so romantic nor West German society so weak as they had imagined...