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After that, Dr. Cohn showed how the blood goes through a maze of tubes and a series of whirling cylinders. In a plastic bag lined with a gummy substance, the red cells settle to the bottom. Thus separated, said Dr. Cohn, they can be kept for at least a year (whereas by older methods they were good for less than a month...
...laboratory possible. Because blood begins to deteriorate as soon as it leaves the veins, the needle used by Dr. Cohn's team has a special inside coating to keep the white cells from sticking to its sides and being destroyed. From the needle the blood flows through a plastic tube lined with a resinous compound to remove the calcium and keep it from clotting...
...astronomer is not quite sure yet what he will do with the recordings once he has them transferred to permanent plastic records. He is considering using them sometime as the basis of a new elementary textbook on astronomy...
Though there is already an opportunity for inter-school contact over the plastic food trays and modernistic armchairs of Harkness Commons, dining halls are notoriously cliquish places. It is in the corridors and the communal washrooms that minds are most likely to rub, or bump together, and it is there that they should be mixed...
Administrative leaders of the University will sit at Lowell House's first high table of the year tonight to help celebrate the House's 20th anniversary. To suit the occasion the meal will be served by waitresses, and "on china, not plastic," stated Elliott Perkins, Housemaster and Lecturer on History...