Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week came news of another novel counterattack to an onslaught of Nature. Long ago the idea of diverting the river through tunnels was discarded as too expensive and too risky, and cellular coffer dams of sheet steel were built to keep the river out of the excavation area. Three weeks ago one of these crumpled and water poured through the leak. The engineers tried vainly to stem the flow with earth, gravel, brush. Then they thought of volcanic ash. When this is moistened it swells- like oatmeal-to 15 times the dry volume, tightly plugging every crack & cranny. Tons...
...appeared so thoroughgoing a study of the human lung. Dr. Miller's 20g-page monograph-including an affectionate dedication to his wife who was once his student-took its place overnight beside such classics as William Harvey's Motion of the Heart & Blood, Rudolf Virchow's Cellular Pathology. Some well and lesser known facts covered by The Lung...
Previously, the cross-sections taken were much thicker and darker and could not be magnified beyond 60 diameters. The new process, perfected by William Darrah, instructor in Botany, reveals the cellular construction of fossils with heretofore unequalled clearness...
...Wainwright Building, of Missouri granite, sandstone, brick and terra cotta, was the world's first skyscraper to be treated artistically for what it really was: a cellular arrangement of business offices. Working in an age of romantic eclecticism when Chicago boasted "an Italo-Byzantine-French-Venetian structure with Norman windows," when no other architect knew what to do with a tall façade except to break down its height with a series of small horizontal units, Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, in his own words, was and is "every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising...
Hitherto disregarded by the scientific world, a system of transmission of substances between the cells of animal bodies was reported on by G. H. Parker '87, professor of Zoology, before a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences yesterday at Ann Arbor, Michigan. An inter-cellular system of secretions known as "neurohumors," equal in importance to the blood and lymph circulation systems, was described by Professor Parker...