Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mendelian inheritance with the known behavior of chromosomes, which are threadlike bodies in the nuclei of cells. When a cell divides nonsexually, as in a growing plant or animal tissue, the chromosomes replicate (make copies of) themselves. Each daughter cell gets a full set, and unless something has gone wrong, it is exactly like the chromosome set of the parent cell (see diagram...
Teaming up with Alfred H. Sturtevant, one of Morgan's men, Beadle worked for three years on corn and fruit-fly genetics. But he felt vaguely that something was wrong, that perhaps corn and fruit-fly chromosomes were almost worked out. His friend Professor Boris Ephrussi, a visiting embryologist from the University of Paris, agreed. Both decided that genetics had become too isolated; what it needed was ideas from other sciences...
...knees in a matter of weeks by cutting off the raw materials on which the Polish economy depends. Accordingly, at week's end, Gomulka beat a retreat. The Nagy and Maleter executions, he declared, were "Hungary's internal affair," and "the attitude of the Yugoslav Communists ... is wrong and harmful...
...appearance was typical. "I don't appear here in humility," he told his audience. "I made an excusable blunder-considering the circumstances that I was humiliated-of using my power for fractional, justifiable vindictiveness." As for Philco, "I will not tolerate any capricious whim, right or wrong (and I was right as usual), to deter my passionately loyal fans from purchasing this great product...
...tests at three previous A.M.A. conventions, no less than 18% of doctors' electrocardiograms proved to be "definitely abnormal or borderline." An equal proportion of chest fluorograms showed definite or suspected abnormalities, including tuberculosis, cancer, or something wrong with the heart or great vessels. Dr. McArthur's prescriptions for fellow doctors: 1) more regular examinations ("An Annual P.E. for Every M.D."), 2) more relaxation, and 3) better organization of the work load, e.g., set aside one morning a week to see only one type of case...