Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...toughest problems in biology is how to take a microscope picture of a healthy living cell. Most tissue cells, whether animal or vegetable, are transparent to ordinary light. To make them visible they must be stained, and the stain either kills them or sickens them. They can be seen with special ultraviolet microscopes, but strong ultraviolet is also deadly to cells; only the picture of a tiny corpse appears in the photomicrograph...
...Robert Barer of Oxford University, England, is sure he has licked the problem. He uses monochromatic (single wave length) ultraviolet at an intensity which is too low to hurt the cell. It is also too feeble to make a useful impression on a fluorescent screen or photographic plate, so Barer focuses the invisible image, enlarged with a reflecting microscope to about three inches in diameter, on a screen. Then, by means of a rapidly revolving mirror, he "scans"' the image, throwing the ultraviolet light from a narrow slice of it into a photomultiplier tube. The faint glimmer of ultraviolet...
...Paul Crabtree; produced by Trio Productions and Milo Thomas 1st) is a tiresome little showoff that won't even make use of a curtain. Purporting to be a rehearsal of a play in the early stages of production, it deliberately wallows in confusion, tries to thrive on disaster, and insists on being bosom friends with an audience that barely vouchsafes it a nod. Playwright-Director-Actor-Master of Ceremonies Crabtree takes potshots at latecomers while offering pointers on the play; the stage manager struggles with the prompt book while actors add inserts to injury; the lights blow a fuse...
Dean Gordon Johnston of the University of Denver College of Law had heard too many lawyers make the same complaint : the law school graduates who came to them for jobs did not seem to know either spelling or grammar. Dean Johnston decided that Denver graduates would be different, this year gave incoming students a special test. Last week he announced the results: half the class, including one Phi Beta Kappa, had flunked. Samples of examination answers...
...treaties we make with the Russians are only as good as they may profit by them...