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...final measure the building would contain a plaque bearing the names of all those men who gave their lives and would be outfitted with a memorial room to remind students using the building of its "basic purpose and origin...
...high gravity of the oil (it is almost pure gasoline), and the depth of the oil-saturated strata (about 1,700 ft., the deepest of its kind ever found), caused experts to guess that the pool may contain a minimum of 50 million barrels, a maximum of 600 million barrels. In honor of Old Mike, the area was named Benedum Field...
...survey of the scope of anti-semitism will not be a revelation to most people, and a survey as methodical as this picture cannot hope to contain thrills and excitement. Instead it works up an almost morbid eagerness to find out what new civilized horror is coming next. Sympathetic characters turn out to have subconscious prejudices, and each unkind word strikes a new blow at the hero. As usual there is a love story in the middle, and very soon even it becomes entangled with anti-semitism...
...simple division) and by a kind of primitive pairing. Several years ago, Dr. Sonneborn discovered that special strains of paramecia give off a poison (paramecin) that kills normal paramecia. The "killers" differ from the "sensitives" in only one known respect: the amount of a substance called "kappa" which they contain...
...paramecium, to rate as a killer, has to contain at least 200 particles of kappa. If it has less, it is a sensitive, and can be destroyed by killers with plenty of kappa. Dr. Sonneborn discovered that sensitive paramecia can be turned into killers at will. He put sensitive paramecia into a solution of mashed killer paramecia. Half of the sensitives absorbed kappa particles, which turned them into killers. Their descendants were killers...