Word: checks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...check his theory. Professor Smith experimented on black carpenter ants, which are easy to collect in quantity. Hibernating adult ants proved to have as much as 10% glycerol in their bodies, but when the ants were gradually warmed up and became active, all of it disappeared. Chilling the ants for a few days at a temperature just above the freezing point restored the glycerol again. Ants of the same species found in warmer Maryland had no glycerol in them. But when taken to Minnesota, they did as Minnesota ants do, secreting their personal antifreeze against the cold...
...Anybody who's ever had anything to do with politics knows who the guy with the bum arm is," Councillor DeGuglielmo said. He thought the Election Commission was duty-bound to give the voters an honest election, and that it should check all ballots notarized by this person to see if they have in fact been altered...
While the CCA remains in the minority, it can hope to make progress principally through compromise with the independents. But if it regains dominance and shed that check on its action, it is in the position to destroy the social balance of the city. Of the present CCA Councillors, only Mrs. Wise has so far expressed concern for this aspect of Cambridge life...
...check their findings, Beltsville's men dosed plants with red light at all hours of the night. Fooling plants into believing the nights were longer or shorter than they really were seasonally, the scientists were able to make plants bloom months early or late. They have so efficiently programed some pine trees that they grew only 8 in. in four years-responding to the signal that it is winter, no time for growth-while their unmolested neighbors rose...
Though he is one of the world's richest men (reputed worth: $1 billion), Jean Paul Getty, 66, lives like a man who does not know where his next penury is coming from. For years he kept a diary in which he jotted down every $2.70 dinner check, including "35? for ice cream." He has homes in California and Italy, but rarely uses them, prefers instead to run his vast Middle Eastern oil interests (TIME cover, Feb. 24, 1958) from the cheapest two-room suites in Paris' George V and London's Ritz Hotel...