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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Dr. Crile's experiment toward creating living material out of dead is highly exciting. Basic material of all beings is protoplasm. Every body cell contains protoplasm, a gooey material like white of egg, one-fourth heavier than water. Protoplasm always contains at least twelve elements: calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hand-Made Life? | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

Gules three stags caboched or, Crest: at the top of a tower argent, an arm and hand vested gules, cuffed argent, holding a tilting spear sable, pointing dexter." To decipher 'one might explain that "gules" means red, "vested" designates wearing, "sable" black, "caboched" showing the full face but nothing of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Architects Sink Elk Horn Theory of Dunster Crest With Flood of Heraldic Terminology--Description Baffles the Uninitiated | 11/6/1930 | See Source »

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