Word: interaction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like a great, complex metropolis. The individual citizens (atoms) are organized into intricate groups like the people of the city. Some groupings (e.g., the three-atom molecule of water) are as small and tight as families. Others are larger, like all the workers in one factory. The various groups interact constantly, their links forming and dissolving as the cell lives and grows. Certain single large molecules (analogous to the city government) are thought to affect all the cells...
Assistant Professor Paul M. Doty works on the biggest molecules of them all, proteins--huge, rambling networks that often contain over 50,000 atoms. Doty studies how they react and interact, and his experiments lead close to the question of the nature of life...
...eleven chapters covering all methods of education, from "bull and beer sessions" to the lecture system, the Committee shows where it thinks the College has failed to provide a means for students to "interact with men about us, with faculty and fellow students...
Navy Contract Number One has gone to Professor Emory L. Chafee for research in electronics. One of Chafee's jobs is to invent new kinds of vacuum tubes--he is now working on one that spins a light wave around a beam of electrons. The two interact to strengthen an electric current...
...them, Stalin maintains, "interact upon one another" to produce the "objective" (or automatic) conditions for revolution. Thus, says Stalin, a revolution is ripe when the following four situations have resulted from the seething of the contradictions: 1) the proletariat doesn't like the old system any more; 2) the upper classes can't keep going under the old way - it just won't work; 3) the wishy-washy elements (the lower middle class and the farmers) desert the dominant class and go over to the proletariat; 4) internationally, the dominant class is isolated to a considerable degree...