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...simultaneously, and the modern science of heredity got under way with a 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...
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...swore he had killed in self-defense, told as foul a tale as has ever come over prison walls. He said that Loeb was an autocrat behind bars. As head of the prison school, he could parcel out soft jobs to fellow inmates. He ate in his cell and, by transferring sums from their well-stocked bank accounts, he and Leopold could get guards to do their bidding. Prison had only exaggerated Loeb's un- natural appetites. Day declared Loeb had first given him a job with the prison school, later offered him $20 a week...
...fine glass capillary tube. In earlier tests, observation of the speed of fall was made by the human eye and the time was recorded on a hand operated stop watch. The new method makes use of an automatic timing device which replaces the human eye with a photoelectric cell...
...vexatious problem to U. S. Protestant churches and to the U. S. Department of Justice has been prison chaplaincies. Chief reason: the Protestant cloth seems to lose caste when associated with the cell. Last year Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings abandoned a hit-or-miss method by which U. S. penal institutions drew their chaplains from the neighborhood clergy. Into effect last week went a new system evolved with the help of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America...