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...units; * of sodium chloride (salt), 58.5; of the hormone secretin, 5,000; of hemoglobin, about 68,000; of the thyroid substance thyroglobulin, about 700,000. Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley and his associates at the Rockefeller Institute have crystallized the virus which causes mosaic disease in tobacco, found that it weighs 17,000,000 units (TIME, Nov.15). A rabbit wart virus was found to weigh 20,000,000 units, a horse encephalitis virus 25,000,000. Even these monster molecules are so small that they pass through the pores of a fine filter...
...psychology leans to the theory that the human mind is a piece of machinery, which can be measured by the way it acts on raw material. Thus the psychologists feed into the machine a set of questions called an intelligence test, lump the answers together as one product and weigh it, labeling the weight the I. Q. But one school of psychologists, believing the I. Q. is too crude a measure (like lumping apples, oranges and bananas all together and calling them fruit), has been trying to break up the mind into its separate parts. Last week the most eminent...
...their present boating they weigh a shade over 180, and only one man in the boat is under 6:03 in height. They are remarkably matched in height, three being 6:04, four 6:03 and one an even 6 feet...
Thirty years ago only the rich could afford the strange meaty taste of avocado pears. Now avocados cost around a dime apiece instead of $5. West Indian avocados are grown in Florida, and some 13,000,000 pounds were imported last season from Cuba (certain spectacular avocados weigh two pounds apiece). But most avocados eaten in the U. S. come from California. Californians look down their noses at the West Indian article; California avocados are Guatemalan or Mexican or a cross beween the two. The Fuerte, a hybrid, called "the sturdy" because it shivered through the Big Freeze...
More than any class since that of '17, the men who graduate this June must weigh the chances of going to war along with their other plans for the future. And because they are at the most eligible age for service, it will rest largely in their hands just what policy the citizens of the United States will take toward...