Word: whirlings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them both. Presently, he took to cuffing at Lewis's jaw with his elbow. After an hour and six minutes of grunting and thumping, both had reached the crisis of exhaustion in which serious wrestling matches almost always end. Shikat seized Lewis by his fat middle, tried to whirl him over his head in an airplane spin. This was what Lewis had been arduously waiting for. He had just enough strength left to seize Shikat's skull in his headlock, throw him down backward three times, fall on him the fourth time to win the match...
...Whirl was King. There were half-naked Freshmen sowing their wild oats and tasting the wine of life in the few short moments that were left them before old age and burgherdom crept in upon them. There were Juniors who should have been Freshmen trying to look as if they weren't enjoying this brief return to the elemental. On the fringes of the melee hung those who did not dare and those who did not care but who were yet doomed to be drawn by the flame...
...appearance of the President's Report is always the signal for a momentary halt in the academic whirl, when old values and traditions are weighed, new ideas discussed, and approved or rejected. In his report Mr. Lowell, speaking of the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences, said that "the glory of a university is the enticement and production of scholars destined to be eminent in their fields." To better secure this end he suggested to the Governing Boards that a Society of Fellows be established, composed of brilliant young men, for the purpose of furthering an atmosphere of intellectual...
They found that centrifugal force had a marked effect on these units. It caused the granules to stratify, enabling their specific gravity and total volume to be determined. But the only method of studying the effects of centrifugal force was to whirl cells in a tube, then remove them and see what had happened. Alfred Lee Loomis, a New York banker (Bonbright & Co.) who has a private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, and Dr. Edmund Newton Harvey of Princeton University devised a microscope through which cells could be studied as they whirled. Last week they made experiments with this device, which...
Scientists Harvey & Loomis watched cells whirl, saw the tiny granules moving through the protoplasm, oil globules going in one direction, yolk granules in another. From the rate of movement they began to calculate the viscosity (gumminess) of the protoplasm. When oil and yolk are separated they exert a pull upon the cell which divides it in two parts. By watching the course of that process the experimenters were able to estimate the tension on the surface of the cell which holds it together. That tension, they found, is at least 100 times smaller than had been supposed. Preliminary results...