Word: jaggedness
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The demarcation line that runs like a jagged wound across the face of France may look like a juridical fiction, but no frontier in the world is tougher to cross. To refugees, reporters and mail it opens and closes with an exasperating unpredict ability: it is harder to get a...
High electronic magnifications (105,000 diameters) of vinylchloride polymer, a rubberlike synthetic, show a mottling of dots which scientists assume to be actual molecules; 25,000-diameter pictures of soft face-powder granules reveal the jagged projections which make them cling to the skin. Electron photographs of typhoid germs and...
One of the hardest tricks in surgery is the repair of torn nerves. Every human being has a fixed number of nerve cells at birth, and, unlike other cells, they do not multiply. Torn nerve fibres heal only by sending forth tendrils toward the severed ends. In stitching together jagged...
They didn't have far to go. Scrambling up the jagged side of the plateau to get a look at the countryside, the Pan Am engineers were astonished to find a surface so flat that little more than smoothing and a bit of leveling were needed. Above the malaria...
Trial of a King. All this was fine and idealistic, but last week Leopold III and his people were faced by the jagged facts of war, of superlative aggression by an enemy whose morals, politics and economics are in another world; who would stop at nothing and was armed and...