Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bang. Thomas Hunt Morgan made the tough, quick-breeding fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, the most famed insect in the scientific world, correlated hundreds of Mendelian characters with invisible transmitting agents called genes, strung out along the germ-cell chromosomes. It became apparent that Mendel's peas were priceless landmarks in the history of biological science...
...millionaire, now a British subject. Year ago the British Museum acquired some unidentified 2nd Century Greek papyri paralleling St. John (TIME, Feb. 4). Last December in the John Rylands Library of Manchester there suddenly turned up a papyrus scrap less than three inches square which Librarian Henry Guppy declared "priceless," a fragment of St. John supposedly written between...
Miss Nethersole, far from cashing in on this priceless publicity, closed Sapho and went to bed an invalid. She never forgave the U. S. After War broke out, she joined the British Red Cross and began building a reputation of another kind. She became a crusader for Public Health, working up to a learned monograph on Milk Production & Distribution in Relation to Nutrition & Disease and calling her Hampstead retreat the Vale of Health. For all this her Commandership was last week a just reward...
...full worth. With adequate facilities, the Club would take a place of real prestige in American drama. The only road to this goal, however, is by a tremendous renaissance of Harvard interest in the drama. The English Department must heed this call or Harvard will have lost a priceless opportunity...
...Southwest Conference. In 1923-28 he coached at Texas Christian. Two bad seasons at Texas A. & M. had left him without a job until he was put on last year as Southern Methodist's assistant coach. When his predecessor went to Vanderbilt, he left Matty a priceless keepsake, one Robert Edward Wilson. ''Bobby" Wilson's legs have to carry only 147 lb., so they carry them incredibly fast. Last year he played just five minutes against Fordham, during which he racked...