Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...offense, like a river, must flow around strong points of enemy resistance as if they were islands, and go on, leaving isolated conflicts behind...
Most obvious door to the central mysteries of life is protoplasm, the basic stuff of living cells. An intriguing characteristic of all raw protoplasm is its "streaming"-a flow like watery jelly. For some years Dr. William Seifriz, professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, has cultured an exceedingly primitive, golden yellow slime mold called Physarum polycephalum, just about the lowest observable form of life. In its streaming he has clocked a major rhythm of about 45 seconds (TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Rather like a primordial heartbeat, this pulse may be the ancestor of all real heartbeats...
...pressure in B is kept constant; in A, it can be raised or lowered at will. When the pressure is the same in both compartments, rhythmic streaming occurs normally through the strand. But by raising the air pressure in A, Kamiya can slow down and stop the flow of material from b to a. When the flow has stopped, he has balanced air pressure against the protoplasmic force. Thus, by noting the amount of the increased pressure, he measures the protoplasmic force...
...Professor: But that's not the whole story. A football is still a funny shaped ball and takes peculiar bounces. And to quote a referee for a change, Austen Lake says that "there is an emotional ebb and flow in the nervous system of football kids which sometimes washes out the energy of the mighty and floods the forces of the weak. Speaking of referees, what did you think of Red Friesell and his third consecutive stormy week? I certainly hope the poor fellow isn't a bundle of nerves by now and makes a hash out of the Harvard...
Footballs flow all over the University yesterday as inter-House schedules provided plenty of games for gridsters. Adams House set back Dunster 6 to 0 and Leverett blanked Lowell 9 to 0 in the tackle division. Eliot House's touch team nosed the Funstor's 3 to 1, and the Puritan touch artists were snowed under by a superior Adams group...