Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three of the department's tutorial staff are Chairman John T. Edsall, professor of Biological Chemistry and nationally known authority on proteins; Dr. Ronald M. Ferry, Master of Winthrop House, and F. H. Laskey Taylor, who has done extensive work on chemical isotopes and blood phenomena...
Adding to the difficulty of judging a crew and its oarsmen is the fact that course times are of little value. Although the Charles' current is relatively stable, the wind varies from day to day. Natural phenomena, such as the tides at New London, can change conditions enough to make as much as a 15-minute difference...
...opened; we widened the breach and eventually we will rout the enemy. We may not be the creators they were-time alone will decide that. But we did achieve one thing: we have changed . . . that mass of more or less enlightened public for whom those four masters were undecipherable phenomena. It is a fact that now people make an effort to see without their former conventional blinkers. It is a fact too that [although] many academic 'realistic' painters dare to appear in their naked photographic vulgarity, they now make a timid try at what are for them daring...
...Lake Success, Molotov told U.N. that Russia not only favored disarmament but was willing to accept (subject, of course, to the veto) inspection and international control of disarmament enforcement. That was related to such phenomena as the fact that inflation, a symptom of production shortages, is mounting in Russia. (In September a single food price jump trebled the cost of eating...
...Cornell, first to isolate an enzyme (urease) in crystalline form. Enzymes are "organic catalysts" which influence the chemical behavior of substances concerned with life. Said Dr. Sumner: "Living cells contain hundreds if not thousands of enzymes, and one definition of life is action by those enzymes, wherein such phenomena occur as growth, reproduction and other biological changes...