Word: phosphorus
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...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, iron, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulphur. The living combination of these is exceedingly complex. Best of chemists have been unable to decipher the protoplasmic interrelations. Could they do "so, they could make protoplasm in their laboratories...
...result was the reappearance of Frank Shaughnessy, lateral pass expert, the presence of Jesse Hawley, former Dartmouth coach, on the field in football togs, and a particularly ineffective showing of Team A in scrimmage against the third freshman football team. The phosphorus ball used in the later stages of practice was the only ray of light the whole afternoon...